Word: limelight
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...seemed to glide across the floor, a vision of serene stylishness floating through a succession of spacious rooms. Now, 23 years after retiring, Loretta Young is returning to the limelight with the same graciousness that marked the opening sequence of her acclaimed television series, The Loretta Young Show. She is on location in Canada to film Christmas Eve, an NBC-TV movie scheduled to air in December, about an eccentric rich woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to reunite her family for Christmas. What finally brought Young back to the camera at age 73? "Maybe I was getting bored...
Billed as a reluctant candidate, Kennedy avoided political life until January of this year, and stayed out of the limelight until he founded the non-profit Citizens Energy Corporation six years ago. The corporation aids the Massachusetts Fuel Assistance program and has worked on various experiments in alternative energies and conservation...
...wimpy as Harvard police act, it is obvious that their attitude is exactly what Harvard administrators want. It is clear that campus police have been told to stay out of the limelight no matter what it takes...
While Hasenfus squirmed in the limelight, Washington prepared to resume direct aid to the contras after the expiration of a two-year congressional ban. Last Friday President Reagan signed an Executive Order authorizing various Government agencies to take responsibility for the $100 million package. The program will be administered on a day-to-day basis by the CIA and supervised by the State Department. As if to underscore that point, Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, traveled to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where he met briefly with President Jose Azcona Hoyo and then with...
Even as Chamberlain enjoyed the limelight back in London, Hitler completed plans to violate the treaty by sending his army into Eastern Europe. Chamberlain became a symbol of the pitfalls of diplomacy based solely on trust and goodwill. Winston Churchill was called upon to guide Britain into the bloodiest war in Europe's history...