Word: spiel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howdy Doody show, the lovable Bob, when not embroiled in the Byzantine struggles for pre-eminence in Doodyville, waged by Howdy and the nefarious, Mr. Bluster, used to sell Welch's grape juice to the kiddies. Now that his former audience is well of age, Bob's spiel has fermented; he is selling Riunite wine...
Like California in the past, Colorado is being promoted as the new haven for Americans who, weary of the dreary densities of urban life, are eager for skiing, hiking and clean air. "Own a piece of Colorado!" cry the real estate men. The spiel works. Throughout the state, reports the Rocky Mountain Center on Environment, bulldozers are preparing at least 1,000,000 acres for subdivisions...
Sightseeing boats this summer were cruising off the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport blaring a tour guide's spiel from loudspeakers. When Rose Kennedy finally complained to the selectmen, they persuaded the guides to turn down their speakers when they pass the compound and refrain from broadcasting across the water any mention of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy...
...East Side/West Side, Jim Aubrey, then president of CBS-TV, summoned Scott and Producer David Susskind to his office and informed them that the episode they were working on required a happy ending. Scott peeled an apple with a favorite switchblade knife as he listened to Aubrey deliver his spiel. Then, glaring malevolently at his boss, he said, "That's a lot of bull." The network president quickly retreated...
Garrulous is what boxers get when fight time nears, spilling out a kind of blow-by-blow preview of coming mayhem. Frazier's spiel: "Clay can keep that pretty head, I don't want it. What I'm going to do is try to pull them kidneys out. I'm going to be at where he lives?in the body. Then I'll be in business, when I get smoking around the body. Watch him?he'll be snatching his pretty head back and I'll let him keep it. Until about the third or fourth round, and then there...