Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosecution insists that she was in on the plot to use a fortune in bribes and plunder to buy a piece of Manhattan worth more than $160 million. Her lawyers paint a different Imelda Marcos. The First Lady of the Philippines, they say, was a woman innocently cooling her thousands of pairs of heels as the machinations of Malacanang Palace buzzed around...
...family and you're risking your life on the job, that's not much at all," says a young officer. His fellow patrolmen all have other jobs -- as mechanics or security guards or butchers. One source of extra income is shaking down the thieves: for a share of the plunder, the police will agree to look the other...
...made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder for the Louvre. What he saw comes out in his work, in an unpretentious and conversational way, in the poses of figures quoted from all manner of old masters and antique statuary. It even pervades the many pornographic drawings he did to stimulate the jaded appetites of the Prince Regent, which...