Word: plunderings
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HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14--Fidel Castro's rebels swept down out of the mountains today and sealed off the bustling sugar shipping city of Manzanillo in a daylight rampage of pillage and plunder...
...tasted the wretched champagne (the waiters had quickly begun hawking it at up to $7 a bottle), fewer had eaten the truck-borne smorgasbord, almost none of the guests left with gifts, although a passel of greedy looters and gate-crashers made off with enough lightweight plunder to stock a Sears, Roebuck store. And Todd, who never had 18,000 friends, had made almost that many black-tied enemies...
...when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person. Virtue and heavenly blessings are sold here; you may even buy the privilege of sinning in future...
...coast, and sold mostly in the slave markets of America, was the same commodity that centuries before had attracted Moorish raiders from the north and Arabs from the east. But few, if any, of the early traders who came to Africa's edges in search of booty and plunder were tempted to penetrate the inhospitable land...
...power-mad blacks overstep the bounds of propriety to murder, plunder, and rape the helpless whites, who finally save themselves and the South "from complete anarchy" by banning together to form the good man's friend, the Ku Klux Klan...