Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cramps will take almost any song and beat it into submission. When they're through, they gleefully move on to plunder more music from rock's "sacred" archives. "Sunglasses After Dark" gives surf music the thrashing of a lifetime, and "Mad Daddy" experiments with roller rink organ music. Even "B" movies are fair game, as "I was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Zombie Dance" testify...
...wish to tell you that the relief supplies being sent in through Kompong Som and Phnom-Penh never reach the Cambodian people. The Vietnamese have not distributed relief supplies. At the same time, they continue to plunder and to destroy the means of food production that the people have managed to achieve. That's why we appeal to all international organizations to prevent the Vietnamese from taking this aid and to send their personnel to supervise its distribution...
...Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice could plunder...
...According to the martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...
Many people are selling to avoid rising insurance costs and the risk of robbery, which is epidemic. Burglars increasingly are breaking into churches and synagogues to plunder sacred pieces of silver and gold...