Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct in the first place. Once aroused, why stop to reason or sympathize? The savage surfaces, prevails...
...formula giving the People's Republic some measure of political control over the colony. In a shrill attack late last week, Xinhua, China's official news agency, declared that "unequal treaties forced upon the Chinese people provide an iron clad proof of British imperialism's plunder of Chinese territory. It is a sacred mission," the report added, "of the Chinese government and people to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong." But however mild, such control would mean an end to Hong Kong's special nature. "The Chinese have to admit," noted London's Financial Times, "that...
Amid a crescendo of applause from supporters, López Portillo announced that his government was nationalizing all Mexican banks and imposing strict currency controls to stop the flight of capital from the country. "It is now or never," he said. "They [the speculators] have already plundered us. But Mexico is not finished. They will never plunder us again...
What gave the clumsy power grab more importance, however, was that the airmen were almost immediately joined by students from the University of Nairobi and by hordes of ragged shantytown dwellers, who went on a rampage of looting and destruction. They proceeded to plunder everything that they could carry away from the stores of downtown Nairobi's predominantly Asian retailers (estimated losses due to the looting: $50 million). Recalls one eyewitness to the destructive orgy: "Guys were running around stuffing money into their pants, and when their pockets were full they stuck the money in their underpants...
...began as a merely improvisational marauding, a restlessness of tooth and claw: Magyars drifting toward new grazing lands. Vikings blowing down on the north wind to their plunder. Since attack justifies defense, almost everyone came rapidly to participate. War, both waged and endured, got to look like the human condition, The merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast...