Word: spieling
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...audience had been waiting thirty minutes for this spiel but there was only one sign of restlessness. Under a placard reading "How to STOP Worrying," a tall youth chewed hungrily on both his hands. MacKinnon's talk consisted of "humorous" little stories to warm up the crowd and illustrate the "handling" of people. One of these anecdotes concerned some preposterous lie about food packaging that MacKinnon had told his first grocery store customer; another showed how a father had convinced his on to kill a beloved net turtle by applying one of the rules taught by the course. Audience response...
...tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak spots of the individual customer...
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...