Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public eye as much as possible as the campaign spat to a close last week. But through it all, flashing the personality that has endeared him to New Yorkers even when they were weary of his clowning, fussy, dumpy, outgoing Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia never once lost the center spotlight he loves...
Gedye was back again after five years. In 1940, home-bound from Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...
...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
Stepchild's Father. No shrinking violet by nature, "Nate" Twining had nevertheless long been one of the comparative unknowns of the air wars until he turned up in the B-29 spotlight. With some reason, he and the men of his old Fifteenth, overshadowed in the news by the Britain-based Eighth (now on the way to the Pacific), had called themselves "The Forgotten Air Force...
...Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale, and afterwards he appeared in some soldier shows. But a year of infantry fighting overseas and six months of paralysis from bullet wounds shattered his stage poise. His voice was as lusty as ever, but audiences gave him the heebie-jeebies and a spotlight froze him stiff...