Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the king in an epic pose, with his new weapon, holding it above his head in an outstretched arm, completely oblivious to the fact that it is not Excalibur. It is an inspired and unprecedented touch that instantly reveals the winsome befuddlement of a buccanneer who refuses to plunder orphans and yields at once when Queen Victoria's name is involved...
...that's been relocated to Miami Beach, unemployment near 50 per cent, and continued military threats from as far away as Washington, D.C., the Sandinistas must rebuild Nicaragua. They do not follow the approved revolutionary path, killing all the National Guardsmen and forcibly converting the economy so they may plunder it. Instead, the executions are limited, as are the jailings of political opponents; dissent within limits is allowed; some attempt is made to include non-Sandinista elements in the ruling government...
...overstuffed subordinates. By then it was too late to avert scandals, although Harding did not live to suffer them. He died, apparently of a heart at tack, perhaps complicated by simple bafflement. Today, in a more cynical age, it is hard to believe that so many officials could plunder so brazenly. Mee's version of this gaudy time is light and entertaining. It may also, if the reader wishes, be taken as cautionary...
When the night was young, the King contemplated plunder At dawn, his body, head and crown were all asunder. -Iranian poem describing the assassination of Nader Shah, an 18th century king...
...humor." Thunderous abuse follows the reading of each manuscript. Worst of all, these noble spirits find themselves implicated in the cruelty of their age; the feast mysteriously provided them by Gelnhausen, a dashing young member of their entourage, turns out to have been tainted by violence and plunder...