Word: plundered
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...these are moderates, though of course some are more moderate than others. The Communists have been exiled, Trujillo supporters have been silenced by the wave of popular demonstrations against them, and the moderate groups who seek free elections and a representative government to replace the system of despotism-cum-plunder of the Trujillo era appear to have reached agreement...
...retinue of Mohammed the Conqueror. As the empire grew, so did the retinue, until under Suleiman, it numbered more than 5,000. Attached to the imperial household, working in tiny studios scattered through the rambling palace grounds, were artisans and craftsmen whose job was to transform the raw plunder of war into objects that enhanced the glory of the sultan. The artisans also instructed the sultans' sons, for each young prince had to have at least one skill not connected with the throne. Suleiman was an expert jeweler; Abdul Hamid II was a fine woodworker; other sultans turned...
...crime against all humanity; therefore, a pirate, wherever his crimes were committed, and against whomever committed, wherever he is captured, and regardless of by whom he is captured, may be tried anywhere and punished anywhere." If this is true of one whose crime consists of the seizure and plunder of a single ship, surely it is true of one who murdered millions of his fellowmen...
...ancient. You have the Suez Canal, and we have the Panama Canal.'' In Panama City, visitors to the Cuban embassy could pick up a copy of the slick magazine, INRA, and read the same thought in words more to the point: "The Panama Canal Zone constitutes ... a plunder of Panama." From both Cairo and Havana last week the attack was on, and in both cases the target was the same: the U.S. Panama Canal Zone...
...word about them. Instead, the official Communist Chinese news agency cranked out reams about the harsh treatment of overseas Chinese in the land Khrushchev was visiting. A boatload of returned compatriots docked last week in Canton, and Communist newspapers played up stories that "many suffered destruction or plunder of their property" after the Indonesian government banned them last January from doing business in rural areas. "In the name of inspection," the Reds charged darkly, "Indonesian officials insulted Chinese girl students." One Communist newspaper imparted a whiff of gunpowder by demanding "compensation" for the 2,500,000 dispossessed Chinese...