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Word: spotlighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Girl, Big Voice | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Behind every psychoanalyst stands the man with the syringe, said Freud. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago, the syringe-wielders held the spotlight. The momentous goal toward which they were advancing: chemical treatment of schizophrenia and other mental disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syringes for Schizophrenics? | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...Culligan, Inc. of Northbrook, Ill. introduced a new water-softener appliance by setting up giant faucets with running water outside assembly halls at eight regional sales conventions. Inside each darkened hall, a single spotlight fell on a stage curtain which parted dramatically with an explosion and cloud of smoke to reveal the new gadget. The shows cost $35,000. But they were worth it. They netted $1,000,000 in orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTION: Boomlay Boom | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Opus Dei | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

While a few individuals took the spotlight, team success has depended on many other factors. Solid rebounding and an ability to get shots up from the outside have pushed a tall and aggressive Eliot basketball team into first place. Jim Joslin, John Rockefeller, and Bob Leet spearhead the team's offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses, Freshman, Fight to Lead Leagues | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

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