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Word: spotlighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unless the new President is a consummate actor with an iron hide, he won't find the spotlight particularly pleasant. If he attempts to curb coverage . . . he'll find himself quickly and widely denounced as a sinister threat to freedom of the press. On the other hand, if he surrenders completely to the insatiable desires of the press . . . he'll find little time to run the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Warning, Mr. President | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...TIME has on occasion "honored" the enemies of the U.S. by placing them on the cover. The answer: TIME'S covers reflect the news, and Communism has certainly been in the news. When a Communist appears on the cover of TIME, he is placed in the spotlight the better to be scrutinized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Substitutes and injuries shared the spotlight on Soldiers Field yesterday, as the varsity football team, still a little shaken from the rough Columbia game, started preparations for Saturday's contest with Washington University of St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battered Football Team Readies for Washington | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bright Hope | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...from bad to worse in Rumania. Last January, for the second time since the Communists took over, there was devaluation of the currency. Money which could have bought a pair of shoes suddenly dropped to the value of a pack of cigarettes. The time had come to dim the spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Raining in Moscow | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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