Word: spieled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another One. Now look, I said to my friend at the Maury bar toward the end of my long spiel, all around the world our men are trying hard to get facts, winnowing, sifting, selecting, arranging and finally interpreting them. All this material is then sent to New York where it goes through a similar overall process. All of us have the job of explaining events and people to readers in many countries who often happen to be the most intelligent and well-informed men in the world. My assignment happens to be Peru, which I know well...
...special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...
Webb, informing the marines what they are fighting for and making a spiel for future preparedness. The long speech and its reception are out of character, out of place, out of keeping with almost everything that has gone before...
...much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating the worker (see glossary). Whether it's a potato peeler or a card trick-he has to make it look easy...
Unlike the men, who devoted most of their time to the exteriors and engines, most of the women concentrated on the upholstery. Some showed a lack of reverence toward the whole show, as did one female who stopped a salesman in mid-spiel by nudging her husband and saying. "Let's go buy a TV set." If they did, they were foolish. They should have waited for the raffle...