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  • May 16th, 2008 7: 34 pm ET can somebody check on Mcsane's health I am worried, let's be careful we might intertain a crazy old persom in the white house and we will all not want the out come he should produce his latest medical records this Mcsaine is insaine

    McCain calls Obama's positions 'reckless' 2008

  • It's almost as if Ms Sheehan has adopted a "George Bush" strategy, talk big, swagger a lot, kick a lot of ass in the mistaken belief that it will win "hearts and minds", and make damned sure you never intertain even a glimmer of a thought that your strategy might be wrong.

    Office Arrests: The Shame of John Conyers 2007

  • I don't know if you intertain now, but Having much success in choosing talented winners, I strongly believe you should.

    Monday Evening 7:43pm 2005

  • She may intertain missionaries in the attics and hold meetings of the Dorcas Society in the basement.

    The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

  • I have a relative who helped to create the fiber-optic system for telephone communications, and though am sure he already knows much about this man, it may intertain him to read more,

    Damn Interesting 2008

  • go back to other moveis and check out. movies are made to intertain.

    Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion 2010

  • "Well, what wud ye think if ye'd had to intertain a German Prince unawares?

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • A newspaper is to intertain, not to teach a moral lesson. "

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I got my pervisions in, why I'll show you how de ladies intertain dey company in de old days when Gin'ral Jackson used ter po 'de wine. "

    Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

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