Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak of eccentricity that led him to pull out of the race one week and jump back in almost immediately (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Betting odds last week: about even...
...teeing off on a golf course one day when someone used the word handicap, and he cracked: "Talk about handicap-I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew." His name: a) Sugar Ray Robinson...
Richfield Oil Corp. and some associated companies are drilling, more for information than for oil, in support of surface geology that suggests the North has oil. Cost: about $500,000. The cold is not a handicap; winter, in fact, is the essential condition for northern drilling because it freezes supply trails...
Song-and-Dance-Man Sammy Davis Jr. was teeing off on the golf course one day when his opponent asked him what his handicap was. "Handicap?" wisecracked Davis. "Talk about handicap-I'm a one-eyed Negro...
Pamela's adjustment to the unseen world is so complete that she belongs to a Brownie troop, takes swimming lessons, rollerskates, and sings in her Baptist church children's choir. She pretty well ignores her handicap and so do her teachers. Says her father: "It gives you a terrific boost when your kid comes home with a report card that you know is an honest report card." So normal does Pamela seem to her classmates that one crew-cut lad pays her the ultimate compliment of an eternal complaint: "Her? Oh, she's just one of those...