Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledge in imaginative ways, most grade school teachers still innocently overlook one of the ageless and most fundamental complications in teaching-the fact that boys are different from girls. One might suppose that the nation's predominantly women teachers would have noticed the difference; yet they continue to handicap boys by expecting them to learn and behave like girls...
...Handicap. "All nightingales understand each other," wrote Yevtushenko hopefully in 1960. "Everywhere they speak the same tongue." But unhappily, intelligible dialogue between American and Russian nightingales is severely inhibited, partly in the matter of language, chiefly by the nature of Yevtushenko's nonpoetical preoccupations. The handicap is not so much that his muse is a Marxist but that she is a public creature: poetic sensibility in the West is involved in more private, perhaps more eternal matters...
Labor not only lost such champions as Senate Candidate G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in Michigan, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas and California's Governor Pat Brown, but also did worse than it expected in the general run of races across the country. "We had one handicap this time," noted Meany. "We didn't have Goldwater against...
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Prospective students will not find the earlier filing date a handicap, he said, since many of the better ones "now begin to think about their graduate school applications at the end of the junior college year." He stressed that letters of recommendation will be accepted as late as February 1; and students are urged to send in their first-term senior grades as soon as they receive them...