Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the first question: "Mr. President, are you-will you entertain some questions about your political future?" The President did not dodge. "All of the considerations that apply to such things are complicated," he said, "and it takes not only a thorough studying of each one before you are ready to talk on them, but naturally I will want to confer with some of my most trusted advisers ... I would say that the presidency is probably the most taxing job on the-as far as tiring of the mind and spirit, but it also has, as I have said...
...economic guide supports a valid confidence that wise effort will be rewarded by an even more plentiful harvest of human benefit than we now enjoy. Our resources are too many, our principles too dynamic, our purposes too worthy, and the issues at stake too immense for us to entertain doubt or fear. But our responsibilities require that we approach this year's business with a sober humility...
...Commission Chief Examiner Larry W. Blanchard, his deputy Robert Butler and two other examiners were suspended on charges that they falsified an official report of the financial status of General American Casualty Co., which went broke last year. Blanchard and Butler were accused of having permitted General American to entertain them at deer hunts, Examiner William J. Noad of having accepted $135 from General American to pay his rent...
Nikita Khrushchev-he gave the free world a most surprising new image of a Soviet leader. If Russia's intentions haven't changed, at least they have a human being to amuse and entertain the West...
...reception in Calcutta provided the final crashing chord to a barnstorming tour which had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any campaigning vote-seeker. But while Moscow's good-will ambassadors swelled with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried...