Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dictionary not withstanding, "parietal hours" is the Harvard-Radcliffe term used for those hours during which students may entertain guests of the opposite sex in their rooms...
Fifty-thousand dollars is one heck of a lot of money for a college student government to spend to "entertain," especially with the high number of things to do on campus and in Boston on any given Saturday night. If Vega does not come to campus, I find it difficult to believe that students will be in the least bit depressed or disappointed with the Council or its staff...
There are signs that Gorbachev's revolution has in fact engendered "new thinking" within the Communist Party. When party members are asked the touchy question of whether the Soviet Union might someday have a multiparty system, an impressive 36% express readiness to entertain the notion. Among the general public, 40% of the men thought the Communist Party would eventually have competition, while women were more conservative, with only 27% taking that view. Another surprise: even after decades of official atheism, half of all party members say religious believers can also be members of the Communist Party...
...national welfare. All that is at stake in the Boggs case is dreams. We do not care whether our car mechanic, say, is a philanderer, so long as he does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things that we can only dream of doing -- like hitting a 100-m.p.h. fast ball or leaping over fences to make the catch that saves the day. By those standards Boggs is one of the greatest wonders...
Despite the cold front's ferocity, there were few casualties. In the places that were hardest hit, people were cautious. Martha Hirt of Fairbanks kept her seven school-age children indoors. "They're miserable because they can't play outside," she said. "We're trying to entertain ourselves by watching videos...