Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urging, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. publicly apologized to Humphrey for "unnecessary and unwarranted statements" he had made while campaigning for Kennedy in West Virginia-innuendoes that Humphrey had dodged military service in World War II (physical disabilities kept him out of service). But Hubert Humphrey carries a heavy handicap: as an unbridled liberal, he is disliked in the South, has no appeal to independent voters...
...Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican choice for President. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the past seven years, he has acquired national repute as the deft negotiator who talks tough to the Russians during world crises and generally comes out on the winning side. Lodge has a handicap that some Nixonites think will weigh against him if Kennedy is the Democratic presidential nominee: Lodge lost his Senate seat to Kennedy...
...from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...
Many feel that Christianity's greatest handicap in Africa is its record of tolerating segregation, notably in South Africa. Two such sworn enemies as South Africa's Premier Hendrik Verwoerd and Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank agree that a crisis is at hand for Christianity on the continent. Said Verwoerd last week: "We are faced today by threats to the future of civilization, to the contribution of the white man in South Africa . . . Christianity is threatened in Africa more than anywhere else." His prescription: continued segregation and repression...
Sliding & Slipstreaming. Moss's own perfectionism is his greatest handicap, argues the London Daily Express's Basil Cardew, forcing him "to exact more from a car, because he makes it go faster, than possibly anyone we have known in the past." His demands have resulted in a long history of mechanical breakdowns and kept the Grand Prix championship beyond his reach. But Stirling Moss insists he can drive no other...