Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very modest, humble and unselfish man... He is always quick to praise the work of others around him while diverting the limelight away from himself...
...Murray] is a very modest, humble and unselfish man," says W. Hardy Hendren III, chief of surgery at Harvard's Children's Hospital and Gross professor of pediatric surgery. "He is always quick to praise the work of others around him while diverting the limelight away from himself...
Behind their masks and cumbersome padding, field hockey goalies are not accustomed to the limelight...
...Limelight suited John Edgar Wideman, a former University of Pennsylvania basketball star and Rhodes scholar who became a novelist once heralded as the "black Faulkner." But in 1976 the light began to darken. Wideman's younger brother Robert was convicted as an accomplice to a murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years later, the writer's 16- year-old son Jacob stabbed a camping companion to death and, like his uncle, was given a life term...
Meredith Rainey '90 may be out of Harvard, but she certainly isn't out of the limelight, out of shape or out of the running. Far from it. The NCAA 800-meter champion qualified for the Goodwill Games this summer. She finished seventh in Seattle, but is considered a strong contender for the 1992 Olympic gold...