Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carriers of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, after weeks of rampaging up & down the coast of Asia and its guardian islands, had no new action to report. The spotlight of fleet activity was on flyspeck Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima), mid way between Guam and Tokyo, where the enemy persisted in repairing bomb-pocked airstrips in order to fly off planes against the B-29 base at Saipan. For an hour and a half, a 16-inch-gun battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements...
...their own problems, too. Where, they mourned, was a new producer to find name players (the real instrument of power in wartime Hollywood) and where the scarce, raw film? And if these should be found, as they can, be, how was the producer to find a Broadway theater to spotlight his pictures for the rest of the country...
...second Broadway show, as in her first (One Touch of Venus), jet-haired, slant-eyed Sono Osato catches and keeps the spotlight. She has personality and piquant looks as well as nimble feet...
Jack Brunner has planned another "spotlight affair." This time it's a trip to the mountain North Conway, New Hampshire, for a ski weekend. This trip has already shown the sings of Jack's genius for the novel--at least on paper--what with a troupe of well stocked St. Bernards, steam-heated boots...
...Spotlight. "I was fourth or fifth in line, and while I waited to get out I got scared. ... I ran for the trench, feeling as though I were in a huge spotlight and sure that the bombers were watching me, personally...