Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impassive Eichmann, meticulously taking notes, sat inside his glass cage. Once, during the testimony of a Warsaw ghetto revolt leader, the packed courtroom suddenly went dark. Outside, a truck had collided with a power line, cutting off electricity for blocks around. Only a single spotlight powered by an emergency security generator remained on, focused on Eichmann's cage. In its glare, the startled Eichmann turned his back on the courtroom, covered his face with his hand. As a Polish Jew was recounting the deportation of 10,000 Jews to Belsen extermination camp, a balcony spectator suddenly leaped up shouting...
There was a car for almost every taste as the U.S.'s fifth International Automobile Show opened in Manhattan's huge Coliseum last week. More than 400 new models were on display from 40 automakers in ten nations. Even Detroit, which previously conceded the spotlight at the show to foreign competition, turned out in force to introduce its new bucket-seat brigade-the new generation of compacts that are built on the old body shells but emphasize sports-car interiors...
...course, writers such as Turgenev and Sholokhov, whose stories the films are based on, do not write simply to entertain the kiddies. Both have their eyes on the world of men; the animals take the spotlight only because of the way they become involved with it. The common theme that unifies the two films is the ways society can stifle and destroy the natural goodness of life. Needless to say, when natural goodness first appears, it is wagging its cute little tail...
...Glee Club shared the spotlight with Berman and Dinah Shore and finale number with Miss Shore. the dinner members formed a to shake hands with President , then mingled with Washington at parties throughout...
Still, the varsity had to share the spotlight with a makeshift team from North Carolina State. State sophomore Ed Spencer won the 200 yard butterfly, and his teammate, Hungarian Peter Fogarasy, captured the 300 yard breast stroke as both turned in meet record clockings...