Word: plunders
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...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...
...executives of the Krupp armaments empire at Nuremberg; of heart disease; in Washington, B.C. Kaufman, who later served as a special master for the U.S. court of appeals, prosecuted the defendants on grounds of "waging aggressive war" against Jews and other civilians. He settled for convictions on charges of plunder and slave labor and sentences of up to twelve years...
...addressed from the rear by fornicating lackey-lovers. When Mary calls for her dogs, a bevy of stuffed canines are propped up before her. She chooses to disremember that she once had a hound killed for losing the scent in a foxhunt. Like unskilled pickpockets, her attendants try to plunder her last remaining jewelry. A marvelously comic doctor-apothecary team (John Bottom and Ron Faber) get the Queen deliriously squiffed on drugs before she attains her final serenely regal composure...