Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score. The attacking unit that had produced 16 goals in the previous two games was held to four tallies by rugged Terrapin defensemen playing control ball. The Maryland midfield took face-off after face-off. Munro's squad was not able to overcome this handicap in spite of a strong fourth period finish...
...thing, bad weather kept the crews off the water until the 15th, cutting out about two weeks of vital spring practice. Thus Coolidge is already operating under a serious handicap. To make matters worse, the first race against Navy is a week earlier than usual, with the result that he has even less time to put together a workable combination...
Died. George Storr May, 71, flamboyant black sheep of the management consulting business, an ex-Bible salesman who despite the handicap of a prison record (eleven months for forgery) hard-sold his way to leadership of the U.S.'s biggest "business engineering company," whose services he promoted by staging some of golfing's gaudiest and most lucrative tournaments at his Tarn O'Shanter Country Club outside Chicago; of a heart attack; at Tarn O'Shanter...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, called the literacy system "a serious handicap" to the would-be Negro voter. He predicted that "if the bill goes through, and is strictly enforced, we can expect a rise from 1.5 million to 3 million registered Negro voters in the South...
...massive, baldheaded Franco Marinotti, 70, boss of Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest producer of synthetic textile fibers. Marinotti, who preaches a cold-blooded business philosophy ("Gratitude is a sentiment possessed mainly by dogs"), did his postwar rebuilding without a cent of U.S. aid. Despite this self-imposed handicap, he pushed Snia into the front rank of industry by automating to cut costs and by instituting a research program so successful in turning up new fibers that, as he boasts, even the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. has signed up to produce Snia's caprolactam, raw material...