Word: plundered
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THOMASINE & BUSHROD are a couple of stickup artists who roam the West after the turn of the century, shooting up citizens, falling in love (with each other) and distributing the plunder of the territorial banks among the poor folk. According to their wanted circular, they are "known to have many friends among Indians, Mexicans, Poor Whites and Other Colored People." They are pursued by a rabid white marshal, and naturally they meet a violent...
...only did the imperial powers plunder the material resources of their colonies, but, more significantly, the forced upon those colonies a social system tailored to their own interests, and not to the long-range interests of Third World people. The imperialists created local client elites, built factories and developed plantations, produced products and crops: all with the objective not of bettering the condition of the people, but of supplying the needs of the mother country. As the colonial societies became further mired in the slogh of stagnated development, Lenin realized they would never reach a level of balanced industrialism...
Although the roach problem is not particularly acute this year and the level of infestation has never been excessively high, the cockroaches appear perennially to plunder students' rooms...
...attempts to censor or repress the opposition--have been ignored, or rationalized according to the altruist "morality." The connections between the economic fallacies of socialism and the inflation and shortages that crippled the Chilean economy have been evaded. The Chilean entrepreneurs and professionals who refused to submit to government plunder and enslavement have been vilified. Those who dare to speak out against Allende's tyranny have been smeared as fascists and lumped with the supporters of the military junta and its alleged atrocities...
...their own devices, divorced from the control of society, they would kill, rape, and steal to satisfy their (primarily sexual) desires. But one day, all these violent people realized that the uninhibited pursuit of their aims would eventually result in devastating war. So, giving up their rights to plunder, they created a society both to protect themselves from their own worst impulses and, in he long-run, to help people--as individuals--to satisfy their desires more safely...