Word: lootings
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Assembling in England with guns tucked in their clothes they demanded Red Cross relief. When this was not forthcoming because the supply of Red Cross requisition blanks had been exhausted, they threatened to loot the stores. One George E. Morris, attorney, tried to pacify them with a speech, was constantly interrupted by cries of: "We want food and we want it now! We're not beggars, we're not going to let our children starve." Women sobbed, children whimpered...
...been for 27 years. In 1891 Perry, a trainman of the New York Central, longed for luxurious living. One night he sawed his way into his train's money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand...
...Loot the shops," shouted the agitators, "burn the fat bourgeois restaurants...
...State Department put the word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city of over 500,000 souls clean of loot, collected a ransom of 700,000 Shanghai dollars ($264,000), moved on to attack Hankow, "Chicago of China" and Kuling, mountain resort...
Suddenly, however, Rumanian public opinion reasserted itself last week. In Transylvania and Bukovina peasant mobs sacked and burned Jewish homes in the countryside, then grew bolder, began loot- ing Jewish shops...