Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the allies are left feeling whipsawed, the Serbs are only too . delighted to exploit the confusion. This they have achieved by doing everything to handicap the peacekeepers short of actually driving them out. On Dec. 11, Serbs announced a ban on U.N. military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making it almost impossible to supply aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. They continued to block the Sarajevo airport and prevent deliveries of fuel to the U.N. mission. "The calculated attacks have never been as bad as now," said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley, "and our ability to carry out our peacekeeping...
Liss even found a fresh way to overcome his fear of flying -- a serious handicap for a peripatetic photographer. He took five flying lessons a decade ago and promptly bought a Cessna 182, which he now pilots to and from assignments...
...that Tracy's competitive nature is limited to goaltending. Aside from an being an devoted water skier and a fairly avid golfer (that he carries a 13 handicap and yet says "I stink at the game" indicates his toleration for failure), he attempts to tackle Harvard academics the same way he would a Jay Pandolfo slapshot--at full speed...
There are only two sure ways around this handicap: play on a Sunday, or memorize the variable practice schedules of the two teams...
...silly" but feels that its "blend of agony and ecstasy, work and play, caution and risk, painful serious learning and exuberant relaxation" offers something like an 18-hole way to enlightenment. Peck doesn't exactly say that if Jesus were to return to earth, he would have a 3 handicap, but wisdom and baloney might be added to his list just after agony and ecstasy. Both qualities are evident in his writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates is wisdom, or at least solidly grounded common sense. And if you aren...