Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only deficiency in Sanders's credentials is a lack of coaching experience, but coming as he does from a long tradition of ex-Celtics who have successfully switched to coaching, this is less of a handicap than it might appear at first glance. Ex-Celtics have a tendency to become outstanding coaches, the most notable being Bill Russell, Bill Sharman, Tom Heinsohn and Bob Cousy, all of whom are now coaching in the NBA. Sanders comes highly recommended, according to Watson, by "a number of prominent people" in the Boston area, including Celtics General Manager Arnold "Red" Auerbach, the winningest...
Secretariat's capacity for food was a handicap when Laurin began training him for his apprenticeship as a two-year-old. The name of the training game is patience. A horse has to gallop a mere slow mile a day before his muscles are in shape to gallop two miles. He has to gallop two slow miles a day for a long time before he is in shape to do any running. He has to run slow before he is ready to run fast, and short distances like a furlong or two before he is ready to run farther...
Business as Usual. These votes imposed a handicap on Kissinger's current Paris negotiations with the North Vietnamese. They implied, furthermore, that Congress might not give Nixon legislation he needs to negotiate lower tariffs with the Common Market or the most-favored-nation trading status that he has virtually promised to Soviet Russia. On the other hand, many of Nixon's policies not only, have broad support in the U.S. but are backed by both Chinese and Soviet self-interest...
...clear that the Mongoloid child is a burden on himself. In fact, most evidence suggests that such a child, whose IQ is usually far below the norm, is happy unto himself, for he remains unaware of his handicap. Therefore, if he is a burden on anyone, he may be on his parents and siblings...
...vocabulary used by doctors to describe Mongoloids is frightening. Just the word Mongoloid itself conjurs up a race--labelling this child as someone not just handicapped, but practically outside of our own familiar species. In the best pregnancy counselling offered, the parents are told that the child will need "love and affection," but will never be "like other children." At worst, we learn that this child will be a burden on society. It is obvious that there is a fear of this handicap--a fear over and above that of other handicaps. A child born blind or paraplegic will obviously...