Word: plundering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sometimes the thieves' ingenuity has been almost as quaint as their plunder. It has been reported that in several cases they hired helicopters to pluck their booty from the roofs of houses and barns. Robert Eldred of Dennis, Mass., returned from a trip to find that his square-rigger ship vane had vanished. Six months later, it was traced with the help of an antique dealer to a banker's house in Florida. Eldred flew to Florida and, taking two extra seats in the plane, returned home with his antique. Before Eldred had time to remount the weather...
Gardner laudably appeals for "immediate and far-reaching moves" to save the environment, but he follows this with a call for "sustained economic growth." Since said growth is largely responsible for the plunder of natural resources, this is like trying to repair, maintain, and fuel a car while pressing the accelerator to the floor. Good ecology is incompatible with ancient economic dogmas that wealth is something measured in beer cans per consumer...
...Earth Day may be a turning point in American history," Gaylord Nelson told a Denver crowd of 4,000 last week. "It may be the birth date of a new American ethic that rejects the frontier philosophy that the continent was put here for our plunder, and accepts the idea that even urbanized, affluent, mobile societies are interdependent with the fragile, life-sustaining systems of the air, the water, the land." Nelson's mood may have been a bit too euphoric. Still, even though some of the ecological enthusiasm engendered by Earth Day may fade, the earth itself...
...senses the mood of his country and is less friendly to the U.S. than in former times, apologized for the attack but testily suggested that the embassy "ponder such legitimate grievances" as the Plaza Miranda demonstrators voiced. Presumably he was alluding to often repeated charges that U.S. firms plunder Philippine mineral resources and that U.S. servicemen accused of local crimes are sometimes shipped home before they can stand trial. Nonetheless, when another band of protesters formed a picket line at the embassy three days later, police quickly dispersed them...