Word: lootings
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...Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most helpful to them in business...
...would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw, took no officers prisoners. Each Kosciuszko pilot carried a vial of potassium cyanide in case of capture...
...into the vault, burned their way through more steel into a safety deposit room. Aided by a card index, they cut into 350 boxes in which Koch clients, distrustful of banks, were hoarding their cash. Jewelry and securities were untouched. At 4 a. m. Sunday the robbers departed with loot estimated at $250,000 in cash. Chicago police blamed a gang of New York specialists for the city's biggest burglary in nearly a decade...
...thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang is to see where he has hidden the loot which he comes to take away the night before the hotel closes its door to the public, she falls hopelessly for him in spite of the moustache...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...