Word: limelighted
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...came as no surprise that it was Chang's teammates--Mike Shyjan and Mike Zimmerman--who shared the Crimson limelight for most of the fall tennis season that ended at the Rolex Intercollegiate Regional Tennis Championship in Princeton, N.J., last weekend...
Jones, try as he might, couldn't write a tune. So he was cut out of the publishing revenues and the limelight. Jagger and Richards were too formidable for the slight, blond, increasingly tuned-out guitarist. Jones lost his grip on the group, and on his own life, and he died on the bottom of the swimming pool at his English estate, a property once owned by A.A. Milne, an author who believed in happier endings...
...once Saddam Hussein must be delighted to share the limelight. Eager to divert attention from his rape of Kuwait, the Iraqi leader has tried repeatedly to drag Israel onto center stage in order to convince his fellow Arabs that the enemy is not Iraq but the Zionists and their American backers. Israeli security forces played right into his hands last week when they fired into an angry Palestinian mob on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding 140. The deaths, said Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, were "Israel's great gift...
...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...