Word: entertained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expense, always refuses to discuss politics. A reporter recently suggested a White House appointment and Rebozo snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida for the sun. On election night in 1960, Rebozo was the only outsider invited to Nixon's Ambassador...
...have meetings on Queen Mother Wilhelmina's estate. Rumor held Miss Hofmans responsible for a growing rift between Bernhard and Juliana, and when the stories got into print in 1956, they stirred a storm that ended only when the palace announced that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations, direct or indirect, with Miss Hofmans...
...only beginning to understand that lesson. The most divisive issues of the day?the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...
Sneed said that "life insurance companies (like N.E. Mutual) are banking here because it's good business. They may find a new market for their service, and by establishing positive relations with Unity's presence in Roxbury has forced large white banks to entertain propositions from black businesses that they never
...desires. Onassis is a man of considerable magnetism. Some of his friends profess to see him as part Alexander the Great (for whom he probably named his son), part a Hellenic Great Gatsby. He is iron-willed, infinitely considerate of his women, vain of his limitless ability to charm, entertain and protect those whom he likes or loves...