Word: eying
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Billy was first inspired to learn the art of the pitch after enjoying a Ginsu-knife demonstration on an Atlantic City, N.J., boardwalk. He realized that an eye-to-eye pitch has to be honest and salable to the core. It was this skill--along with verbal agility, stamina and likability--that he used to get consumers to buy products they never knew they needed. He carried the torch for vintage pitchmen, and I had hoped that he would continue to do so for a new generation. But his pitch was cut short far too soon...
...Turning a blind eye to the Iranian government's crackdown may strike some as a betrayal of the million of Iranians who took to the streets. But the reality is that without an agreement over Iran's nuclear program, a nuclear arms race in the Middle East will threaten far more lives than club-wielding Iranian policemen...
...press - strikes many in Egypt as contrived, given Egypt's dismal track record in protecting its citizens both at home and abroad. Human-rights organizations and the local press point to abuses suffered by Egyptian migrant workers in the Persian Gulf states as the government seemingly turns a blind eye. "The government is also trying to hijack the campaign and trying to present itself as patriotic in defense of Egyptians abroad," says journalist Hamalawy. "What do they do for the Egyptians who are in the gulf and who actually face similar treatment, if not worse...
Obama, President Barack • election of is absurdly credited to Michael Jackson by Rev. Al Sharpton • Politico mocks freakish insistence of on pronouncing names of people and nations correctly • Putin is met by without subsequent claim to have been able to look him in the eye and "get a sense of his soul" • Rahm Emanuel's implication that the White House is willing to cave on the public health care option is sort of disputed by while also being sort of confirmed by • Vice President Biden's gaffe - that is, his accidental blurt of truth - that...
Sarah Palin is that most exotic of American creatures: an Alaska original, raised and ripened in an environment remote, extreme, unfamiliar - and free. A land of self-invention, where no one bats an eye at a mom-deckhand-governor-whatever-comes-next. Ever since John McCain introduced his running mate last year, Palin has been like a modern-day version of the captive specimens hauled back to Europe by explorers of old. Like Squanto in London, she speaks the language - if not always the idiom - of the audiences she fascinates. But she remains, on some level, unknowable...