Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heady 19205, when the world of sport boasted such immortals as Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never...
...often split and public squabbles were common. It became less of an advisory board and more of an apologist for the Administration's economic policies. There seems to be little chance of similar trouble under Burns. Said he: "My inclination would be to stay out of the limelight, make my recommendations to the President, indicate the basis for [them], and then, having done that, to remain eternally quiet...
through the day, Then look for me by limelight...
...watts of limelight); I'll come to thee by limelight, though...
...breathe more life into the pallid News. But Editor Townes, who had doctored other sick papers to success (TIME, Feb. 16, 1948), soon found his patient rebelling. Sacred cows got in the way of many editorial decisions, and Townes found that some stories, e.g., the banning of the movie Limelight, were not considered news. Last week, after 72 days in the editor's chair, Townes quit. Said he: "I was knocking my head against the wall. A newspaper must above all be a good product ... I soon found out that I could not make a good product...