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Word: handicapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucky enough to start with a name very well known in England. In your country, it is somewhat of a handicap to have a great father; few of your great men have had great sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Advice to the World | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

McGuinn, a two handicap junior, played number one for several matches last year. Seniors Wayne Thornbrough and John Hawkins round out the returning lettermen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weiland Looking to New Arrivals To Bring 1966 Golfers up to Par | 3/26/1966 | See Source »

...horse was George Royal; he had won only one race this year. The name of the "boy" on his back was Johnny Longden, and that was enough to lower the odds on him to 6-1 as he left the gate in last week's San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Pumper's Last Purse | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Despite the handicap of swimming in two events strange to them, Leverett's swimmers clinched the victory before the two final events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Teams Whitewash Yale In House Sports | 3/14/1966 | See Source »

...afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious: he has no telephone in his palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends a minister driving off to neighboring Uganda to find out what is happening in the world. Rwanda is, however, progressing; until recently, it had only a barter economy based on cows. National pride also engenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE PASSIONS & PERILS OF NATIONHOOD | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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