Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to do it," announced Dulles. "The door is open." He added a firm note of caution and skepticism: "I can't say that I entertain great hopes from these conversations, but one can never tell." In Washington, Dean Acheson echoed the U.S. Assembly delegate. Until Russia's attitude changed, observed the Secretary of State, the West must continue to build up its strength, lest weakness tempt Communist aggression...
Harvard upper-classmen are singing a new version of Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. They want more time to entertain their dates in dormitories on weekends. At present the distaff side must...
...arguments in favor of the limited proposal speak even more cogently for the general one. It is not especially on the Yale and Dartmouth weekends that more entertainment facilities are needed. On these weekends there are House dances and all manner of festivities to keep couples amused. The ordinary weekends, when there are no big sports spectacles or dances, are the times when the students most need a place to entertain girls...
...Eight-eighty ran off his dollar bills on ordinary bond paper, using a tiny hand press which he affectionately called his rich Cousin Henry. He tried to make sure that no storekeeper would be stuck with his handmade currency more than once, and he spent the money, mainly, to entertain an adoring army of neighborhood children. By the time he was convicted, 880 had so captivated the Secret Service that it got him off with one of the lightest counterfeiting sentences on record...
Grad parietal rules state that at least two girls must be present in a room, and the new service will provide a couple-sitter, at prevailing baby-sitter rates, for any grad student who wants to entertain a woman until the 12 midnight deadline...