Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed that Mr. Vinant met all those specifications. A tall, awkward, slow-speaking, artless man of 51, Ambassador Winant has long been halfon, half-off the U. S. public scene, with his friends constantly predicting a great role for him just as he would quietly step out of the limelight. Background: wealthy New York family; St. Paul's School ('08); Princeton ('13); captain of a U. S. observation squadron in World War I; master at St. Paul's; liberal Republican Governor of New Hampshire, 1925-26, 1931-34; head of the first Social Security Board...
Knollenberg experienced no unusual difficulties until 1775. In that year Washington took the revolutionary limelight, began to write letters and make comments on which classic U. S. historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
...Army and Navy? Canada had an independent Royal Canadian Air Force when the war started, is keeping it that way. Results have been both good and bad: the air-training program is the high spot of Canada's war effort; the Air Force has sometimes hogged both limelight and money, to the harm of general military cooperation. Canada's best military men reason that the Air Force's chief war chores (training, coastal patrol and convoy) lend themselves to separate direction. But they feel that the U. S. air services (Army and Navy) still have much...
...impromptu navy, which transported a dozen canoes overland to Lake Waban, held the limelight for twenty minutes until the combination of rock-throwing from the shore and the disconcerting effect of a speeding motor launch in their midst forced the Harvardians to beat a hasty but dignified retreat...