Word: lootings
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...A.S.P.C.A. finally captured the "wild dog" for whom ex-Opera Star Frieda Hempel has daily been leaving food in Manhattan's Central Park for the past five years. (Suspicious neighbors who thought she was getting rid of hot loot got her investigated by police last February.) The diva decided to take the animal home, install it in temperature-controlled luxury. For a wild dog the molasses-colored mongrel had an even disposition, a splendid coat. Likely cause for these genteel qualities was the Hempel diet: good beef, carrots, melba toast, cod-liver oil, and sometimes mineral...
...Napoleon arrived to loot the ancient rococo palaces and churches before he rushed on into Egypt. The French garrison held until 1800, when the English Fleet hove into view, anchored in Malta's deep harbors and took over the island...
...thrown out of work by the hundreds of thousands. They starved and grumbled. They saw their rice being snatched for other parts of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" (i.e. Japan), with Japanese greed heightened by subnormal crops at home. A Japanese problem was to find enough ships to carry the loot...
...humble hospitality and returned as soldiers to pillage and defile. Great iron bells that for centuries sounded matins and vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine. Priceless icons, illuminated manuscripts handed down from Byzantine emperors, and religious treasures* had been gathered as loot and shipped to Berlin. These things had driven them, sick at heart, from beloved mountain valleys thick with arbutus and carefully laid out for the husbanding of vineyards and olive groves within sight of the slopes of Mt. Olympus and the plains of Troy. At the islands where their boat...
...loot is kept in a bureau drawer, where the more recent acquisitions have been piled while still moist on their more moldy predecessors, the whole contributing to what his roommate describes as an olfactory symphony...