Word: handicap
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...difficulty is almost inevitable because children judged to be beyond the help of any hearing aid are often sent to special schools where the emphasis may be on lip reading and sign language. Their own voices may never develop intelligible sounds, so they may fit their lives to their handicap and relegate themselves to a deaf-mute ghetto...
...understanding of the statements and frame of reference in my article. My efforts were not directed at persuasion, but rather at the understanding of the Mississippi problem. I feel the COFO workers will agree that a lack of understanding on both sides was a costly handicap...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...
...wrestling, inexperience is a handicap. Giving up weight to opponents is a handicap. And when inexperienced wrestlers give up weight to opponents, it frequently means disaster. That's the situation Harvard freshman wrestling coach John Lee '52 is facing...
Inevitably, there was talk that Lyndon would one day be President-but he denied any such ambition. When, in 1960, he finally decided to go after the job, his Southern background proved his greatest handicap; no genuine Southerner had been elected to the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848.*It was the geographical barrier that Jack Kennedy was talking about when he said, some time before his own nomination: "I know all the other candi dates pretty well...