Word: plundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horses, twelve sheep, eight hogs, three typewriters, three telephones, a set of china. When three British MPs and two British-sector German cops protested, they were arrested. At week's end the three Britons were returned with apologies (the two Germans had escaped). But the Russians kept the plunder...
AFTER VISITING REFUGEE AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS, TALKING WITH PRISONERS OF WAR, AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...
...marchers lived off the land, though the Communists never mentioned plunder, spoke only of "confiscation committees." Provincial populations fled in terror before "Mr. Soviet," as the Red army became known. The Reds' first great obstacle was the Yangtze, where Chiang hoped to stop them. A Red detachment in captured Nationalist uniforms managed to take a small river port which permitted the whole army to cross. But the most famous incident on the Long March was the crossing of the Tatu River, where a detachment of Communists swung across hand over hand on the bare iron chains of a half...
Among other British traits unrecognized at home, says the Times, is their habit of piracy, "of dropping honest work and taking to simple, bluff, hearty plunder," and their "propensity for endless aggressive warfare." There is no use, it insists, in Britons assuming a cloak of false modesty about these many talents. "These are very necessary traits . . . nowadays, not at all to be apologized for." In the world's present state, "there is nothing more dangerous than the current cant phrase, 'We must gather together all the peace-loving nations.' Unless the peace-loving nations can induce...
...smart. Traps are not much good, and news of poison seems to spread fast. At present, there are many more rats than people in the U.S. They thrive in any climate, on any kind of food. In the tropics they often nest in palm trees, descending at night to plunder the food stocks...