Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity squad was forced indoors for the second day in a row and put in a full 2 1/2 hours on regulation gridiron chores. Actual contact work was limited to line scrimmage, and Brown plays again occupied the spotlight...
This situation was not to Franklin Roosevelt's political advantage. As long as affairs abroad crowded the campaign and Wendell Willkie off the front page, he had had the spotlight to himself. The reversal of news values gave Franklin Roosevelt the option of sharing the spotlight with his rival or of losing it entirely...
...Philadelphia: "We want Willkie!" During one interlude of cheering, Maestro Walter Damrosch, sitting in a box, jumped up, and tried with husky voice and tears in eyes to sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Willkie finished his speech. The crowd rose to the national anthem, while the spotlight held their candidate in its silver glare...
Seldom seen, seldom heard. Tycoon Levitt avoids the spotlight, leaves evangelical work to dark, dynamic Alfred...
George "Distilled" Waters grabbed the spotlight for the Merrimen, while Bob Daniels's passing arm was a constant threat to the Bellboy eleven...