Word: ill-gotten
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...boys' school. His suits need cleaning but his heart is pure. He sits in drafty garrets quoting Pindar and correcting misspelled words like klock and starz. He believes the aphorisms he daily peddles to the young and pimply minds under his charge: There is no profit in ill-gotten gains, and Work tires no one-what tires is laziness, the mother of all vices, and Alcohol kills more surely than a pistol shot. He is a dedicated teacher who loves his work...
...calm the junior officers, who are still forcing senior officers to resign, and to give government clerks a 60% raise to discourage the taking of graft. Problem is where to find the money. Chang's men claim they could get it painlessly by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of Rhee's ministers. Privately, they admit such confiscations would be only a drop in the bucket. They would like to have the U.S. foot the bill, but the U.S. is more likely to reduce its aid than to increase it. Only alternative, claim Chang's strategists...
...Fifth Revolutionary Law would have ordered the confiscation of all holdings and ill-gotten gains of those who had committed frauds during the previous regimes...and to implement this, special courts with full powers would gain access to all records...to investigate concealed funds of illegal origin, and to request that foreign governments extradite persons and attach holdings (illegally removed from Cuba...
...also nice to know that our ill-gotten money will be used nobly to enlarge a few delegates' capacity for sin, sex, and sadism at the National Convention. I have worked on Student Councils for the past three years and attended national as well as regional conventions. Nothing constructive ever comes of them. Nothing ever will. It is inherent in their ephemeral nature. Nothing the Council will do, assuming it will do anything beside buying its members season tickets to Durgin Park, could waste money in a more fruitless manner...
...staff of about 2,500 had arrested 1,045 suspects, sent 314 cases to the courts, spent only $70,000 in 27 weeks of investigations. Its records will now go to the Wealth Recovery Board (TIME, Dec. 19), which can mine them for leads useful in recovering further ill-gotten gains of the Peronistas, to add to the $35 million the board has already confiscated...