Word: plundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong political appeals are also madi to the Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan...
...them, would be met by 350,000 Greek-speaking Cypriots and Turks, all loyal to Britain. Defenses long neglected in pre-war days have been rushed to completion; they even utilize 14-foot walls built by the Crusaders. An attack might cost thousands more lives than Crete. But the plunder would be greater...
...Spaniards and the British with equal ferocity and died with a British musket ball in his heart; his subordinate and student, Michel de Ruyter, whose conquering fleet once sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad Helfrich had to defend...
...length the rulers of the city fled, and the foreigners, as rats leave a ship; and the city fell. Ling's village endured the plunder of their own retreating army, and prepared to meet the enemy. They decided to make ready tea and small cakes and fruits, and courteously to welcome the invaders outside their village, "and thus in decency and honor the conquest would take place...
...Hoppy's fabulous plunder, most (invested in A. G. & E. securities) had disappeared in the depression. Besides his $20,-000,000 (more or less) liability to A. G. & E., he owed about $4,000,000 in back income taxes to the Federal Government...