Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name was no handicap. Nor was all the free publicity showered on him when a couple of Tory M.P.s protested that the bloomin' British taxpayer was forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie...
...academic work at the Kennedy Institute? Scarcely the young Everett Dirksens and Lyndon Johnsons, who make their way through elections on their close ties with the home folks. Scarcely, too, the men from parts of the country where the Harvard, and even the Kennedy, name may be a handicap. The most likely "junior fellows" are the budding Joseph Clarks, Fulbrights, Douglases, McGees, and Kuchels--in other words, precisely those who already take advantage of academic study in their work and would profit least from the simple exposure to professors...
Unfortunately, I never finished high school, because my parents sent me to a private school at the age of 14. This severe handicap in my preparation for life has often plagued-me. Friends' fond reminiscences of sock-hops and eider sales, of the gaiety and glamour of high school life, set aching in me a vast void that seemed destined never to be filled...
...mile Donn Handicap, by three widening lengths; at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Conceding anywhere from 2 to 19 Ibs. to his five rivals, including Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Ernest Woods's Lt. Stevens, Gun Bow ran just as a 7-10 favorite should-leading from wire to wire, romping to an easy victory worth...
...Good Fight. In The Presidential Papers, he wrote of his "small inability to handicap odds." It is no small inability; it is the lack of a sense of proportion. All of his ideas seem equally good to him, all fights equally worth fighting. He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act. His very long essay on the first Liston-Patterson fight contains a detailed description of how he had gone to pieces that weekend; hung over and distracted at a press conference after the fight, he shouted insults at Liston, got himself carried...