Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offer some loot to the administration...
...Dragons Are Singing Tonight, by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15). They sure are, in rum-tiddly-pum verse designed for surefire (no trick at all, for dragons) recitation. Sample: "I'm bored with my bad reputation/ For being a miserable brute/ And being routinely expected / To brazenly pillage and loot." On reflection, however, he decides that "since I can't alter my nature,/ I guess I'll just terrify you." Ferocious dragonographics by illustrator Peter...
Annie Proulx perseveres and captures literary loot...
...Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...
Also in Winthrop, we find support for political corruption: "Why should more dishonest representatives empty the U.C. coffers into other Houses? Elect Brian Malone. He'll loot for you! Your new futon is only a vote away!" Cynicism at its best. Pork makes the world go round...