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I love that book for many reasons, but I particularly love it for its use of the word, "illgotten" referring to the titular giant ball of string -- it's all very serious.
Could Easily Be a Children's Book fusenumber8 2007
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More importantly, the Country needs US to defeat his Big Government illgotten healthcare plan.
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Having spent my illgotten youth playing silly buggers in the Middle East, serve under some great leaders but alas many were there because of family connections, not their ability to incite men to do their best
Kingsnorth, Battlecat and A Distinct Lack Of Leadership. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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You all should be removed from office ... and be made to pay back all the illgotten gains that you have made while in office ...
Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009
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While this President is traveling the Country with the litany of town hall meetings, he is basically trying to ram his illgotten health care program down the throats of the American People.
President takes health-care battle to battleground states 2009
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If the majority of this illgotten plan will be paid for by eliminating waste and abuse w/in the current Medicaid/Medicare System, why not fix that problem first before creating another bloated mismanaged government bureaucracy?
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Finra said it is seeking an unspecified fine, as well as disgorgement of all illgotten profits and full restitution for affected investors.
Morgan Keegan, Two Employees Face SEC Fraud Charges John Kell 2010
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If you ever get charged with crimes involving hundreds of millions of dollars, your ass will go straight to jail to await trial and the court will move immediately to freeze all your illgotten assets.
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Won't the fact that he's spendin '"billions and billions" (sorry Carl) of illgotten dollars to get his sorry butt re-elect seem just a leetle unseemly to Montana voters?
Slow take David 2006
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Pappy never knew being without money, and proved his Bush natural family dumbness by failing as an offshore driller--check out Zapata Offshore Drilling--that was Pappy Bush's folly right after he bailed out of the US Air Force and became a player in the Mexican oil game, using, of course, old Prescott Bush's illgotten Nazi monies to set himself up in this failing offshore oil drilling venture.
Back in the Saddle Again The Daily Growler 2006
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