Word: plundered
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...theme was "Plunder at home, blunder abroad." |Instead of being a responsive instrument to the people's will," he stated, "the government imposes its will on the people... Instead of looking trustfully toward it for enlightened leadership, the people apprehensively await the next official directive, the next arbitrary restriction, the next capricious bureaucratic regulation. In short, we have stood by complacently while a concerted effort was made to scrap the time-honored system of government by laws, in favor of government...
...government's record," he said, "is stained and besmirched by plunder and corruption, checkered with black characters, and written...
...screaming colors the story the white god of ancient Mexico who w last seen sinking into the sea says. "I shall return." The next panels Cotes, coming from the sea as the turned white god, which makes all t people very happy. That is until begins to rape and plunder...
...male relatives was half-brother Santos Matute Gómez, whom Juan Vicente named president of the state of Zulia in 1918. For a while, the corpulent Santos was content to live on the heavy tribute he exacted from Maracaibo bordellos. Later, in a historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died in 1935, Santos flew...
...instant, Europe broke off its feuds. France and the Holy Roman Empire patched up a quick truce; even the Pope and Martin Luther buried the ecclesiastical mace for the time being. Twenty days later it was all over, and everybody felt a bit silly. The invader packed up his plunder and poled off down the Danube...