Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's biggest theft happened this past Monday, when a burglar stole over $1000 worth of jewelry from 53 Dunster St., the home of Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen. The loot included a Seiko watch, several strands of pearls and a ruby ring...
...years ago that "it's not part of my job to lie to people," Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards cracked: "It's a very big part of mine." During his race against then Governor David Treen in 1983, he joked that his opponent seemed worried that Edwards, if elected, might loot the Governor's mansion. Quipped Edwards: "If we don't get Treen out of office soon, there won't be any money left to steal." Louisianians hooted and elected Edwards with 62% of the vote...
...next day to 150 hours of community service for his involvement in a fraudulent real estate deal). Last week also brought news that Ferraro, who previously signed a $1 million book deal, has just filmed a TV commercial for Diet Pepsi. Reported fee: $500,000. Would all that loot seem like a crass cash-in to the electorate when Ferraro runs for the Senate in New York next year? She was not saying. But if she loses, she just has to rework one of her jokes: when her mother asked if Ferraro would really be elected Vice President, "I told...
...police that he had originally intended to break into the house, awaken Cuomo and ask to be reinstated in his $7,500-a-year state job as a janitor, which he had lost in 1981 because of absenteeism. Once inside, Quarles became frightened and decided instead to take the loot. He said he planned to return the items a few days later in the hope that the grateful Governor would reward him with a job. Cuomo, who rejected increased security as too expensive when he took office in 1983, has ordered new safety precautions for the 40-room mansion...
Finding the wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...