Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy is a strange figure. He has spent the last decade being either extremely lucky or extremely careful when the political corruption spotlight has found Middlesex County in its path. He was not up for election during the Middlesex County "reform slate" of 1972, and stayed remarkably in the background of the late-summer hoopla surrounding fellow commissioner Mike McLaughlin and his alleged job-selling tactics. The job-selling probe, conducted in primary-timed fashion by District Attorney Droney's office, eventually cost McLaughlin a chance of winning the party nomination for Congress in the Sixth District...
...Rupert Murdoch's go-it-alone New York Post, which is crammed with ads, some news, and a lot of sell-promotion. Murdoch is too commercially astute to try to fill the gap left by the Times (he couldn't anyway). Instead, while he has the spotlight he has been trying to start up a new Sunday paper and a salty new morning tabloid to compete against the New York Daily News...
...freshman year, he had to share the spotlight with Ralph Polillio, a gifted wingback-type halfback. Sophmore year he failed to play much, and junior year he found himself seventh on the depth chart. But some people got hurt, and he broke a 38-yard run against Dartmouth, setting up a touchdown, and he hauled in a long pass to set up a touchdown against Brown...
Neither Guidry nor Torrez went the route, and why should they? Why should one player dominate in a game where domination is the prize? This was a chance to see the teams; the stars, the bullpens, the stiffs, and this was a chance for the spotlight to find many in its path...
...though we waited all along for gifted Jim Rice to give us the game-winning moonshot that we all took for granted, the spotlight incidently fell on an athlete who knows its beam all too well...