Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...factors seem to be working against Harvard wrestlers today. The match is at Franklin and Marshall, and, as Pickett said, "It's always a handicap to be away from home." More importantly, Franquemont, Hall, Wickens, and Brooks will all be giving weight to their F and M opponents, a serious disadvantage...
Wilde Talk. "You have the virtue of courage, my dear," explained the Hippodrome impresario who discovered her, "but in the theater one virtue has never been as handy as a couple of vices." And virtue was not her only handicap. In the day of the hourglass figure, Yvette was as bony as the Eiffel Tower, and, over all, decided Oscar Wilde, the ugliest woman in the world...