Word: salesmanship
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...organizations have been as awkward and unattractive as the Republican Party in recent years. ... Its leadership has been vague. Its salesmanship has been negative. ... A dreary record . . . under the heavy crust of big-name capitalists and old-line politicians...
...Under the pressure of materialism and advertising and salesmanship, America's funerals have, within the past fifty years, degenerated into a pagan preoccupation with vulgar display and pagan concern for the body, to the almost total neglect of the spirit...
...having formed his own distributing firm, Distribuidora Mexicana S.A., he began to manufacture steel office furniture. His capital was small but he got enough advance orders to start production. Salesmanship pulled him through a bad fire too; he sold new customers on furniture borrowed from old ones...
...western Allies watched worriedly. Though they could not use the Machiavellian salesmanship of their totalitarian allies, the western powers sought.ways to strengthen their own occupation program to counter Russia's determined steps. Many a German looked on smugly: nine months after their victory, the victors were contending for the allegiance of the vanquished...
...stopping "Bullet" McCluer. Short, jut-jawed, and effervescent, Franc Lewis McCluer has spent most of his 49 years in Fulton, as an undergraduate (class of '16), professor, and (for the past 13 years) president of tiny Presbyterian Westminster College. Bullet McCluer is a whirlwind of energy and salesmanship who earned his nickname, as an undergraduate, from the machine-gun force of his debating...