Word: entertain
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While Kidd was emphatic in her assertion that “the College is not going to re-entertain this question,” Castine said he was still waiting to get the specific concerns in writing so that he could pass them onto the engineers he had been collaborating with...
...living by selling an assortment of fried, baked, pan-cooked and steamed dishes on the streets of New Delhi. By offering a cheap, fast and accessible meal to millions of taxi drivers, electricians and office workers, Bhola Ram and his colleagues keep the capital's economy humming. They also entertain a steady stream of tourists and street food lovers for whom Delhi isn't Delhi without its smorgasbord of roadside treats that can be as irresistible as they are unhygienic. That may be why vendors have survived both the onslaught of McAloo burgers and other Western fast foods...
...Weekly World News first appeared in 1979, when the National Enquirer went color and the only thing the publisher could think of doing with the black-and-white printing press was to run all the joke stories his editors came up with to entertain themselves. It has since become a cultural institution, spawning the award-winning Bat Boy: The Musical, driving the plot of Mike Myers' So I Married an Axe Murderer and appearing as a sly joke in Men in Black, when alien hunter Tommy Lee Jones cited it for delivering the "best damn investigative reporting on the planet...
...Chanda also draws plenty of parallels with our own day. It's hard to tell whether these comparisons are contrived, elucidative or banal, but they mostly entertain in the way that popular history can. For example, he writes that today's sprawling multinational corporations are modeled on the crown-backed trading houses of England, Portugal and Holland, whose empires themselves followed a continuum stretching back to the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. He contends that the silver and gold bullion mined in Mexico and Peru and shipped across oceans in galleons by the conquering Spanish preceded the convertible currencies and credit...
...extremely talented…he had a natural grasp on how to entertain people,” Kirschner says...