Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-string caddy tore an Achilles' tendon at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, last week, Jack Nicklaus Sr. brought up a substitute to carry his clubs in the British Open -Jack Nicklaus Jr. At 14, the 6 ft. 2 in. Nicklaus fils is already down to a five handicap, but as he watched his father practice, he promised to hold his tongue. "Believe me," he said, "I would never tell him what club to use." Out on the course, however, that promise proved easier to break than par: "When I asked for a six-iron," reported Jack...
...Hubert Humphrey's 1968 running mate, but stumbled in his own reach for the top in 1972. The former Governor has served 17 competent years in the Senate, and could well rise to the demands of any succession to the White House. His past losses, however, are a handicap...
What exactly is a roman à clef? There is no equivalent in English for this phrase that literally means novel with a key−a story whose characters are modeled on real people. The roman à clef, a reader is tempted to answer, is ticktacktoe with a one-move handicap. Naturally there is more to it than that, and the question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only...
Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...
...ranked in the top 20% of his class of 179, Hartman needed extraordinary dedication to overcome his handicap. In accepting him, Temple waived only a few visual skills-for example, reading X rays. Otherwise, he was required to fulfill all the requirements. That forced Hartman to use considerable ingenuity. In gross anatomy classes, for instance, to take advantage of the sensitivity of his fingertips, he shunned the rubber gloves worn by his classmates when poking around in cadavers-until his fingers became numb from the preservative formaldehyde...