Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Gaddis' long, satirical novel JR could well be a model of such a gestalt theory of money. For 726 pages, the reader is bathed in the sounds of voices talking mostly about loot and business-but actually saying nothing...
...Yoshimura were captured, the FBI discovered a single greenback-denomination undisclosed-that was stolen from the bank in Carmichael. It was a "bait bill"-a piece of currency, whose serial number has been previously recorded, that bank tellers often surrender to stickup men in the hope that the loot may be traced...
...stop to find out that they would oppose Boston. As the race in the A.L. East squished to a conclusion, Boston finally buried the Orioles. The two pennant winners will square off for the championship-and the victors' share (estimated at $20,000 per player) of World Series loot...
...autobiography, My Life, selling at a brushfire pace in 17 languages, Golda at 77 may soon find herself a millionairess. She has already received a $450,000 advance from her British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned any trappings of wealth. She has planned a small addition onto her modest 2½-room cottage outside Tel Aviv, says the secretary, "but other than that she has not decided what to do with the cash. I think she simply...
...that she would inherit the property. Said Manson Follower Danny DeCarlo: "She had George in the palm of her hand. She cleaned for him, cooked for him, balanced his checkbook, made love with him." She was also in charge of selling the autos, dune buggies and other assorted loot stolen by Manson's disciples...