Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players are ready to take more chances, aim the ball a little closer to the line and make more daring plays. Since visitors are a little more cautions. I'd say the home team has an advantage of about four points a game. "Four points wasn't enough handicap for Amherst...
...considers what this will mean in the future to black applicants for jobs at Harvard. If the helper status-or some form of lower entrance status-does not exist, the black applicants will have to compete directly for journeyman status with white workers who, being free of the handicap of discrimination, would presumably be more skilled. This would maximize both the handicap of black workers, and the hostility from white workers created by any preference given to blacks...
However adventurous their ova, women themselves do not, in truth, have a record of soaring achievement. (One handicap mentioned by many career women is simply that they don't have wives.) The explanation offered by Darwin among others is that the male is more variable than the female. According to this reasoning, female intelligences cluster at the center of the range, while male intelligences extend to the further reaches of genius-and imbecility as well...
...hometown editors seemed to have trouble on the soggy field and were at first awed by the larger opposition, which had a weight advantage of 30 pounds per man. An added handicap was that the Princetonian insisted on having rules. These several obstacles enabled the Tiger Rag to nail Andy Jamison in the end zone after he dropped back 25 yards to pass...
...homosexual. I am also happy as a homosexual (though this society does not make that very easy) [Oct. 31], and I reject the implications that I have an "undesirable handicap"-for it is not my homosexuality, but rather society's insane reaction to it, that is the undesirable handicap...