Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wages Of Sin Ill-gotten or not, the gains of the Mayflower Madam are hers to keep. At issue was some $250,000 in book and TV-movie money paid to Sydney Biddle Barrows for her story as owner of a high-priced Manhattan escort service. Under a New York law passed to keep the "Son of Sam" killer from cashing in on his deeds, criminals cannot profit from their biographies. Barrows, who pleaded guilty in 1985 to promoting prostitution, argued that the law should not apply to victimless crimes like her own. Last week a New York court agreed...
...following a trail of dollar bills that led up Fifth Avenue when I came across a bag lady pushing a shopping cart full of greenbacks. The "do not walk" signal was flashing at the intersection, but one of the rotating wheels on the bottom of the cart had gotten stuck and the poor old girl was pushing it around in circles in the middle of the street. Gallantly I offered her assistance, staring down psychotic foreign-born cabdrivers until we reached the safety of the curb...
...appointment, the result of the English Department's international search for a medievalist, comes at a time when Harvard's coverage of the field "has gotten rather thin," Porte said...
...that the information leaked it was my understanding that the other two were due to get out in the next few days," he said. "If it hadn't leaked I don't know...whether we would have gotten more...
...feel happy, great," said sophomore Paige S. Cox, adding that the activists regarded the decision as a success. "If even one of us had gotten suspended it would have been a loss. We were in it together," she said...