Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Herman Ruth, also known as the Babe, Bambino, Sultan of the Swat, and even as Tarzan, was one of those men. In the time just after World War I, he stepped into the limelight both for his spectacular ball playing and for his spectacular off-the-field escapades...
...willing to travel." Other multinational companies, however, outbid him with more intriguing ads and better pay. In desperation, Wessel decided to go public. He ordered his small public relations staff, whose major function previously had been to keep the BND out of the news, to thrust it into the limelight instead...
Lynn Chang, Stephen Hammer, Richard Yoder, and Yo-Yo Ma were the the soloists in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat. Lynn Chang glowed in the limelight, playing the violin with just the right amount of youthful schmaltz, giving the entire piece energy and impulse. In their lesser roles, Richard Yoder's bassoon, Stephen Hammer's oboe, and Yo-Yo Ma's cello blended beautifully...
...THIRD term, Garrison did little work on the conspiracy investigation and was in fact out of the limelight for a couple of years--until last summer, when he went on trial for bribery. The federal attorneys seemed to have an open-and-shut case against Garrison, because they had tape recordings of him accepting bribes. But they had underestimated their quarry. Midway through the trial, Garrison--who would sit in court all day reading The Best and the Brightest and underlining his favorite passages--fired his lawyers and took over his own defense. He completely bowled over the jury...
...Wilson who initially pushed Rockefeller toward the executive mansion in 1958 when, as an influential state assemblyman, he took Rocky around to various Republican leaders and trumpeted him as the man who could unseat Democrat Averell Harriman. Now it was finally Wilson's turn to step into the limelight...