Word: plundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea that "parents are a useful thing for children to have; that freedom is a good thing for everybody; that America is a pretty good country for its plain people . . . that the story of the occupation of the American continent is not an exclusive record of graft and plunder and wastage [and] that ,the industrial history of America [is] not entirely a story of company Cossacks riding down coal strikers . . . but also the story of a rising standard of living...
...ring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that, without Farben, the Nazis could not have...
...charges encompassed every evil act of Nazidom. But one charge encompassed all the others: the charge that the defendants had planned and waged aggressive war. The corruption of pre-Nazi Germany, the murder of 4,500,000 Jews, the successive invasions, the plunder of Europe and the enslavement of Europeans-all were held to be international crimes because all were part of the master plan of aggressive war. Upon that contention, Justice Jackson repeatedly said, the prosecution's case stood or fell...
...more she thought about it, the bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on bloody pikes . . . besotted in their lust for blood and carnage and dollars...
...Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches of Tzu Hsi's Imperial Palaces at Peking...