Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week in the news for the younger set of kings and pretenders as Belgium's Baudouin, 20, mounted his father's throne. Other junior royalty in the limelight...
...hospitality was just beginning. The two most militant of his oilmen hosts, crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President) and Glenn McCarthy (who was hell-bent on publicizing his Shamrock Hotel), had been jockeying for weeks for first place in the MacArthur limelight. Houston's Mayor Oscar Holcombe had diplomatically made each chairman of a welcoming committee; between them they had toiled as if they anticipated the second coming of Sam Houston...
...Twinkle. For Composer Martinu, the first U.S. performance of an opera by him is a step into a new limelight. Since he settled in the U.S. in 1941, his new compositions (e.g., five symphonies, a third piano concerto, many chamber works) have spread his name as a topflight instrumental writer. His orchestral works have been played by such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the NBC Symphony and the Boston. But few Americans knew that he had written ten operas, or that half of the operas are comedies...
Stealing the limelight this week from the two pennant races will be the latest Congressional investigation of baseball's reserve clause. The clause, binding a player to one club for the whole of his baseball career, was first seriously challenged in 1947 by returning Mexican League jumpers. They chained that they were being denied a livelihood because of the clause. At that time, Danny Gardella and others settled their cases out of court, reputedly for a fabulous sum. Baseball's moguls settled back and relaxed again...
...sayings to his own future uses: "It is more profitable to give wages, than to receive them." Some weeks later, sitting in the Colosseum in Rome on a moonlit night, he extended his credo: "Let the other fellow have all the glory. Let him occupy the place in the limelight. For me, I only care to have the power...