Word: limelighted
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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...
...action. On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable women of the neighborhood were brought to trial as witches. Surprisingly enough, Tituba readily admitted her guilt and identified the other defendants as co-conspirators in a plot to bewitch the devout Puritan community. Apparently enjoying the limelight into which she had been so unexpectedly cast, she called upon her exotic imagination to supply the judges with new tales of mystery. She told of elaborate witches' convocations which she herself had attended and gave the astonished courtroom a complete description of the art of broomstick navigation...
Last week, in a fit of pique, he made a desperate attempt to stay in the limelight...
...when he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy to make the first major exposure of Communist espionage in the West, Igor Gouzenko has been living undercover, with an assumed name and a 24-hour police guard. Last week the former Soviet cipher clerk was back in the limelight, the center of a swelling controversy between Canada...