Word: limelighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominee Hall bounced into the political limelight four years ago by nosing out eight opponents in the race for lieutenant governor. In 1952 Governor Arn set out to purge Hall, ran a hand-picked candidate against him. Hall overrode the governor and won handily...
...that is why I can be so happy in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world." The golden night of Helen Keller will probably in the long run outshine the limelight she has lived in. Like the "golden flower" of the Chinese contemplatives, her experience has been a redoubtable witness to a doubting age that when other helpers fail and comforts flee, the help of the helpless abides. The Unconquered, her technically awkward but moving film biography, therefore quite suitably presents itself...
Just completing his first Senate term, Hunt seldom stole the limelight, but was respected for his painstaking work on the Armed Services Committee. A semi-pro baseball pitcher in his youth, he spent 22 years in politics (twice state governor), and was the Senate's only dentist. Wyoming's Governor C. J. Rogers, a Republican, said he expected to name Hunt's successor soon to serve until next January...
Said he: "I want my economists to stick to economics. Don't give me political advice." That suited Burns. He told a Senate committee: "My inclination would be to stay out of the limelight, make my recommendations to the President...
Watson said, however, that he had told Cameron that, in his opinion, Lattimore's appearance would be more "harm than help to Harvard." "At the present time, with Harvard in the limelight, the Council could get another speaker who would contribute as much to the discussion on China and would not bring added unfavorable publicity to the College," Watson added...