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profiteer
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  • He and all the profiteers who've since walked out on Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb.†  (source)
  • To the sound of popping champagne corks, tarts with gaudy make-up offered their services to war profiteers seated at laden tables.†  (source)
  • Yet there is concrete evidence that he has undertaken profitable executions for such extremist radical groups as the PLO and Baader-Meinhof, both as teacher and profiteer.†  (source)
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  • What must a nation like Germany do when—deprived of the colonies which might have served as its own Straits Settlements, divested of the equivalent of its own Sumatra, its own Borneo—it faces a hostile world rimmed about at the edge by international pirates and profiteers?†  (source)
  • Just look at my balance sheet-and then look at the books of a certain competitor of mine, who's got all the customers, all the raw materials, all the technical advantages and a monopoly on secret formulas-then tell me who's the profiteer!†  (source)
  • A wholesale company or something is contracted to feed them and there's profiteering.†  (source)
  • But black market profiteers had filled entire warehouses with staples like flour, coffee, sugar, and delicious smoked meats.†  (source)
  • Sometimes the children of this man, who is invariably hated by the whole district as a profiteer and an alien, are playing among the vegetables because the living quarters are just behind the shop.†  (source)
  • Probably those Scottish veterans, since they were finding it necessary to hang some veterans, decided that, if they had to do this, they weren't going to let any "bleedin', profiteering, black-market, double-time-for-overtime, army-dodging, unprintable" civilians have any say about it.†  (source)
  • Profiteers were taking a hand and purveying at enormous prices essential foodstuffs not available in the shops.†  (source)
  • He was as honest as he'd always been, he didn't deliver shoddy goods, he was not a war profiteer in that sense.†  (source)
  • The scarcities, inflation, taxes, and profiteering, the incessant worries and enmities of war, were all ever-present.†  (source)
  • Always a world only for politicians, profiteers, waiters and pleasure-seekers, and not a breath of air for men?†  (source)
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