Word: salesman
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...sure what I would have become if I didn't get a job at Ford. I took the best I could get at the time and I grew into other things, one that I feel helped a lot of people. It was better than becoming a shoe salesman," he says with a chuckle...
...usually spread out through three halls in Moscow's Crocus Expo center - this year it took up only two. With fewer vendors and wider aisles between the stands, the small number of visitors seemed even more sparse. "There are much fewer people this year," said Dzhasur Madzhidov, a carpet salesman with Persian World, a Tokyo-based seller. Normally, "we would have sold everything - even the carpets off the walls." (See pictures of Moscow...
...would have noticed Nixon's perspiration problem, or his basset-hound jowls, whose stubble shadow always read five o'clock. He had a pitchman's handsome baritone voice, and relied on it to counterfeit intimacy, but his oily modulations couldn't erase the public's suspicion of phoniness; a salesman can't close the deal if his prospective customers know what they're hearing is just a pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This was the Nixon so easily...
...self-proclaimed “salesman of science,” C. Ronald Kahn says he loves simplifying the complexity of Type 2 Diabetes in order to teach the general public about the disease...
...Madelyn Lee Payne was born into a strict Methodist family in Peru, Kans., in 1922. She fell in love with Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman, and, against her parents' wishes, married him in 1940. When he enlisted in the Army during World War II, she got a job on a Wichita assembly line making Boeing B-29s. Their daughter was born in 1942, and because Stanley had wanted a boy, they named the girl Stanley Ann. Over the next two decades, Dunham moved at least five times - always in pursuit of her husband's next adventure as a salesman...