Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleges studied throughout the country where the Times found that individuals are inhibited from speaking out on controversial issues by fear of: "1. Social disapproval; 2. A 'pink' or Communist label; 3. Criticism by regents, legislature and friends; 4. Rejection for further study at graduate schools; and 5. The spotlight of investigation by Government and private industry for post-graduate employment and service with the armed forces...
After experimenting with a globe and a spotlight he decided that the sun must be fixed in space below the earth. Neither astronomers nor his business acquaintances would listen to him, so he wrote all his theories down and waited...
...Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
...Spotlight on Saratoga Springs. While Costello considered the consequences of his walkout, the committee turned its spotlight briefly on Saratoga Springs, just 30 miles from Governor Tom Dewey's capital at Albany. Saratoga Detective Walter Ahearn gulped, squirmed, and like to have swallowed his gum under Senator Tobey's outraged questioning, as he admitted that he regularly escorted the night's cash from the downtown bank to two gambling clubs. He got $10 a day for this service, he said, from the Piping Rock Club (where Costello used to own a piece) and $50 a week from...
Squash took the spotlight in House sports yesterday...