Word: lootings
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...Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded up those who could still walk, and forced them to shoulder the loot and carry it off into the jungle. One young girl, thrown between two coaches and caught by the neck, was stripped naked and left to strangle to death in the trap, unaided...
...still unharmed guards in the rear compartment. As doctors worked over the wounded in a makeshift roadside hospital, some of the hundreds lost in the jungle straggled back to tell of what had happened. But troops combing the countryside could find no trace of the Communist bandits, the loot they had grabbed, or the dozens of hostages they had taken...
...Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naiveté of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March...
...When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation approaches completion...
...Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naivete of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March...