Word: spiels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: We knew you'd say that. But tell us why. LEE: I met this small man when he came to Singapore in November 1978. This small four-foot-eleven man, but a giant of a leader. He gave me a long spiel?the Russian bear, Vietnam was his Cuba in the Far East, danger for you. I had provided him with a Ming vase spittoon, and I put an ashtray in front of him. He neither smoked nor used the spittoon. The same arrangements at dinner. He did not use either. At dinner he said, "I must congratulate...
...thought we were getting Halloween decorations,” said Wolfson. “Instead, we got a life-size mummy.” The ancient dark green creature’s size does create awkward dorm situations. “We have to give a spiel whenever we bring somebody over, just so they don’t freak out,” said roommate Pearl D. Houghteling ’08 as she eyed the clean yet creepy creature. “It’s really scary. We jump a little bit every time we walk...
...focus on either what you did wrong or what he did wrong, you will be left with frustration. If he pulled the whole, “Let’s be friends. It’s not you… it’s me,” spiel, he was most likely not being completely honest...
...true that the CIA has a long and clear record of attempting assassinations, overthrowing democratically elected leaders, supporting brutal dictatorships, toturing presumed enemies, and illegally spying on American citizens, I’m certain their representatives at the Science Center had prepared a rosy, well-honed spiel that glossed over all of this...
...able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family). So, the cabbie asks, what are you doing here in Dallas? There's a classic Joey moment of slowly-dawning realization, then: "I did have a layover in Dallas!" Clearly...