Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...
...Harvard team, which does not receive official recognition or financial support from the University, has been built up largely by the volunteer efforts of Gus Jacaccl, who was coach through 1963, and Charles Gibson, the present coach. Despite the severe handicap of having no place to practice near Cambridge, the Harvard team has qualified for the last three years among the top five teams in the East who ski in the NCAA's against the Western teams...
...more concrete realm than these sentiments, experience has shown many medical schools that some students with the avowed goal of psychiatry sometimes tend to downgrade their basic science courses. This is a genuine handicap, to a student, who must master the basics no matter what his specialty...
...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...
...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...