Word: spieled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont (The Spray's the Thing), the New York Stock Exchange (What Makes Us Tick). Sutherland gets his client's point of view across with suave indirection. He has found it no easy job persuading tycoons that moviegoers resent being pounded over the head with a sales spiel. Many sponsoring corporations have so enthusiastically adopted this concept of the non-irritating huckster that their names, as in Richfield Oil's 26-minute The Conservation Story, now playing in dozens of movie houses in Western states, are never mentioned in the body of the film. The corporation merely...
...prospect for 1957: opposition from Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader; a long spiel, many leaps and bounds, and more nothing...
Into the Maneuvers. Estes, who had waved his way through many an empty street in Florida, kept on spinning in California. He wound up the primary season with a spiel of half-baked charges against Stevenson's position on the race issue, his record on old-age pension legislation and his activities as a lawyer for Radio Corp. of America. Retorted Stevenson: "He has apparently decided that if he cannot win, he will destroy...
...Truth or Consequences last week brought this hoary Greek joke up to date with a sequence about a vacuum-cleaner salesman who innocently calls on a housewife, is interrupted in mid-spiel by the arrival of the husband, and almost instantly finds himself in the center of a family quarrel. The irate husband throws his wife onto a sofa, then knocks her down against a table; she retaliates by belting him with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife...
...Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart of the West's lung-busting Tour de France, was guaranteed to be twice as funny as the loudest politician's patriotic spiel...