Word: handicapped
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That accomplishment is especially remarkable, Hiestand proudly noted, because of his friend's struggle against a physical handicap...
...granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay or add cost to this 40-year project. The time has come to cease revisionism. The memorial's purpose is to provide a historical retrospective of one of the most critical periods in U.S. history, not to be a source of social commentary. David...
Some admiring pros believe that even right-wing Republicans may come to realize that Wilson's moderateness could be marketed not as a handicap but as a winning card that could attract Democratic voters in the general election. If Republicans do decide that Wilson is their man, he would have an ideal location for his coronation. The Republican Convention is scheduled for July 1996 in San Diego, the true capital of Pete Wilson country...
...mental baggage of the past proved a handicap from the tip off. The Crimson (13-6 overall, 5-2 Ivy) came out tenatively...
...Electronic town halls" featuring push-button voting have always faced one major rhetorical handicap: the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. The Founders explicitly took lawmaking power out of the people's hands, opting for a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. What concerned them, especially James Madison, was the specter of popular "passions" unleashed. Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium...