Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most highly regarded way of keeping up interest in non-election years--and the best way to keep an organization in the public limelight--is a good speaker program. Even in 1892 this fact was realized...
...Gronchi has also managed, by double force of his ambition and his personality, to raise the presidency from the cornerstone-laying, banquet-attending job it started out to be. "Not only does he intrude on the [Premier's] powers," Stevens reported, "he also crowds him out of the limelight and steals the show...
...hysteria by an army of paid propagandists as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of stimulating fund raising. Never before has a propaganda campaign in behalf of a foreign government been planned and carried out more blatantly and cynically, in the blaze of limelight and to the fanfare of publicity, than the present wave of hysteria now being worked up among American Jews...
...conduct puzzled his friends at home. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell: "If Molly has been softened up in Moscow, is it safe to let any of our legislators visit the Soviet Union?" "You're Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans tried wistfully to get into the act. Justice William O. Douglas and his wife posed for pictures in front of Lenin's tomb: AIabama's Senator John Sparkman turned up at the ballet and a familiar figure ambled through Moscow's subway stations, thrusting...
...among themselves," wrote Walter Kindermann. the official translator who accompanied the Austrian delegation to Moscow, "there seems to be hardly any doubt that [Stalin's] place is vacant at present. All these men are strong personalities. One or the other may at a given time be in the limelight for a short while. But I certainly did not get the impression that there is one among them who ruled over the others...