Word: plundered
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...construction of highways, and it botched that one by proposing to finance it with a bonanza to the Wall Street financiers-a bond issue. In other areas this Republican Administration has actually moved backward. It is dominated and controlled by Big Business-which it allows to plunder our natural resources...
...leave, O leave exempt from plunder...
Although Guatemala's Red-lining ex-President Jacobo Arbenz has never visited Switzerland, many a tie links him to that tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters...
Harvard Stadium, which in the past has seen its wooden goalposts torn down after each football game at a weekly cost of $75, will greet plunder-bent students this fall with a pair of new steel posts designed to remain standing indefinitely...
Flanders is bloody ground, and its history a story of violence: for centuries the alien peoples of Europe have swarmed over her rich, open plain, to pillage, plunder and fight battles: Caesar's legions from the south; Viking raiders from the north, who left their word for landing-stage (bryggja) behind in the name of the Flemish city of Bruges; from the east fierce Germanic tribesmen, whose rough gutturals are reflected in the language of Flanders; from close at hand the troops of Louis XI, Napoleon, Wellington...