Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death, she sought something" to keep her mind off events, decided to study anthropology. But she was under pressure to do something quite different. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the incoming Prime Minister, wanted her to become his Foreign Minister. She protested that she wanted to remain out of the limelight. But Shastri insisted. After ten days she gave in on one condition: that she get a less important post...
...desperation of the Republican Party is all the more apparent with the ballyhoo surrounding the election of John Lindsay. How this untried, unproven and unproductive individual can be projected into the limelight of national politics is beyond...
Califano at the Texas White House that he was to run the aluminum show, thus enabling Lyndon Johnson to keep in the background. McNamara quickly moved into the limelight in front of Gardner Ackley, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor (who opposed the stockpile dumping as unworkable, confined his own action to a speech defending the Administration after the price hike had been rescinded). McNamara used roughly the same technique that the U.S. had used on the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis: turn the screw only half a notch at a time, then release...
...Authors Waltz and Kaplan tell it Belli's next mistake was to assume that Judge Joe B. Brown would repress his own "passion for the limelight" and let the trial be moved out of Dallas-a false hope that spurred the Californian to insult scores of prospective Texas jurors by making repeated attacks on Dallas as a "city of shame...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...