Word: lootings
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...convicted of bank robbery in California unless the prosecutor can show that he intended to deprive the bank of its money permanently. Said Masover's attorney: "To me, that means forever." Whereupon the jury acquitted Masover, despite the district attorney's plea that spending the loot on space stations would be "permanently depriving someone of their money, in common horse sense...
...says. Most of what Mrs. Haley wins she sells at half price to her Florida neighbors or gives away to her relatives. To get rid of the surplus she also advertises in the Clearwater Sun and in the local Laundromat. Toward the end of every year she hoards the loot in anticipation of inflated prices as the holidays approach. Occasionally the bargaining is tense, as it was last Christmas when she unloaded two microwave ovens and a camera for nearly $1,000. "The first thing people say to you is, 'It didn't cost you nothing.' That...
...Tuchman says of the English, "Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric code, but actually it was a business, entered into for the purposes of seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop...
Otherwise, the salvaging was going smoothly, 40 miles off the coast of Florida, until the state government ran up the Jolly Roger and demanded the loot. It seized $1.5 million worth of treasure, including a rare astrolabic instrument worth $500,000 and some 1,800 silver coins. In 1975, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida's territorial waters extended only three miles out to sea. Still, Florida sued to keep what it had taken...
...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...