Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atwood's major handicap is that he is not an aggressive attacker. "He's not as fast as most number one men, not as quick on reactions," Barnaby said. "But he's working on that and he is improving rapidly...
According to Mrs. Simmons. "A handicap in the past has been that Radcliffe's close association with Harvard hasmade people think we have sufficient funds. We just...
Murphy stresses "what is good about America," criticizes Tunney's opposition to a bill allowing FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, links his foe to radical-liberal causes and individuals. Still hawkish, Murphy assures his audiences: "The war is going great." Murphy's age is a handicap, as is his admission that he was on Technicolor Inc.'s payroll while serving in the Senate. Head to head, Tunney probably would win. Republicans hope Reagan's ample coattails will drag his old showbiz pal along...
...none of the major crises of the 1960s-notably Viet Nam, the Middle East, Biafra and the arms race-has the U.N. been able or willing to take a positive role. One of its problems is paltry resources, a handicap that can be partially cured if it acts soon on proposals to increase the U.N.'s on-call peace-keeping force from 11,000 to 25,000 men. But the organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world...
...Prouty's prolonged absences from the state are the two main issues. An underlying issue is Hoff's alleged drinking problem, a handicap which he claims he has overcome...