Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House members, was bound for a reported $50,000-a-year job as president of the American Plant Food Council. But he wanted a last word before he left: "I have seen men come to this body in the heyday of hopeful youth, and stay under the blistering spotlight of public service until those once raven locks were frosted by the passing of many winters, until that agile step had been slowed and that eagle eye dimmed...
...Brown, canyon-mouthed cine-comic, followed Charles A. Lindbergh (TIME, Dec. 10) into the spotlight as a civilian Jap-shooter. In direct violation of the Hague Convention, U.S.O. Trouper Brown, whose son was killed in the war, rode a tank last summer in the attack on Bamban in northern Luzon, popped out with a carbine, blazed away, was credited with killing two Japs...
While Reuther kept the spotlight playing on the company's profits rather than on labor's earnings, G.M.'s Vice President Harry Anderson was frequently reduced to snorting exclamations. Sample...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...Bulgaria, currently so much in the international spotlight, Russian officers, Bulgarian government officials, national party chiefs, and newspaper editors are getting their copies of TIME almost every week-flown in for special distribution by the U.S. Mission in Sofia. The demand far exceeds the supply, which is held down by lack of plane space and the bad flying conditions notorious in the Balkans...