Word: limelighted
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...Limelight. To the government and the financial establishment the Lip commune was a threat: the workers were challenging basic laws of a capitalist society. Gleefully, the political left whipped up L'Affaire Lip into a cause celebre...
Jean Charbonnel, Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development, worked out a compromise by which the watchmaking plant would get $7,250,000 in new capital, half from its parent company and half in government funds. This meant laying off only 400 workers. But the workers, enjoying the limelight as well as widespread public support, summarily rejected the plan. They even stepped up their rebellion by making the first wage payments from the proceeds of their sales. Then they refused to accept service of a court order requiring them to shut down the plant...
Died. Emmy Sonnemann Goring, 80, Junoesque wife of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Göring and unofficial first lady of the Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich...
...almost as if Secretariat realizes how short a period he has in the limelight. Unfortunately for people who love to watch a great horse in action, Secretariat's racing career has less than six months to go. Even if he stays sound and keeps improving, as seems likely, he is slated for early retirement no later than November...
Kleiger's record-shattering win in the pole vault was unquestionably the top Harvard performance of the meet, but John Quirk almost won himself a share of the limelight with a second place in the mile. Quirk ran a fast 4:04.4, edging out Villanova junior Brian McElroy at the wire to take second behind Manhattan's Tony Colon. Colon finished one second ahead of Quirk...