Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
...Communist issue, moreover, that the attack will no longer center solely on the social and economic views a particular professor happens to embrace. The oft-repeated struggle for academic freedom, most recently waged by students at the University of Texas in the Rainey incident, is likely to share the limelight this time with a struggle for freedom of campus organizations...
Yale and Dartmouth have been furnishing stiff opposition almost to the point of invincibility, as anticipated by the preseason dopesters, the Crimson must show improved form and a preponderance of victories against its other opponents to share the Ivy League limelight, starting with a win over the Crusaders tonight...
Mariaschin Shares Limelight...
Varsity center George Hauptfuhrer, whose point-getting ability is sometimes taken for granted by Crimson hoop followers, found himself in the national limelight yesterday. Associated Press tabulations placed him 10th among the country's leading collegiate basketball scorers, with an average of 15.8 points a game...