Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are of course fascinating. There's sad clown Sammy Spears, the 82-year-old burlesque fixture who mostly just wanders around backstage, eyes staring ahead, his mind seeming little but a vast repository for tired dirty jokes, lips moving silently. But when the spotlight shines on him, he seems to draw the juice of life itself from it, speaking loud and clear, ad-libbing, coaxing laughs from the black beyond the footlights...
Johnson's Law. Taking aim at inflation, however tentatively, the Administration shone the spotlight on business. In a telephone address to the 65-man Business Council, the President forecast record prosperity without inflation in 1966, made it clear that he expected businessmen to exert price restraint to match the effort of servicemen in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We can produce the goods and services we require without overheating the economy." Addressing the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers a few days later, Richard Nixon evoked many businessmen's feeling that they are bearing the main burden...
Last month's incident has prompted the MDC Police and the University to act again. Dean Watson has been discussing the problem with MDC Commissioner Howard Whit-more. They have decided to put a spotlight on the footbridge that crosses Storrow Drive, to examine the present lighting of Weeks Bridge, and to install, on the north side of the river, an emergency telephone, with a direct line to the Basin station of the MDC Police...
...word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
...Vice President, Humphrey has managed to share at least part of L.B.J.'s spotlight-a feat not unlike a clarinet player getting rave notices while playing in Benny Goodman's band. How does Humphrey do it? He is willing to perform any task, no matter how large or how small, that Johnson requests of him, and he is unabashedly devoted to his boss. "I became Vice President be cause he made me Vice President," Humphrey recently told a reporter. "As a matter of fact, I've always had a helping hand from Lyndon Johnson." Hubert feels that...