Word: handicapping
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...mile Donn Handicap, by three widening lengths; at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Conceding anywhere from 2 to 19 Ibs. to his five rivals, including Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Ernest Woods's Lt. Stevens, Gun Bow ran just as a 7-10 favorite should-leading from wire to wire, romping to an easy victory worth...
...Good Fight. In The Presidential Papers, he wrote of his "small inability to handicap odds." It is no small inability; it is the lack of a sense of proportion. All of his ideas seem equally good to him, all fights equally worth fighting. He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act. His very long essay on the first Liston-Patterson fight contains a detailed description of how he had gone to pieces that weekend; hung over and distracted at a press conference after the fight, he shouted insults at Liston, got himself carried...
Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...
...Harvard team, which does not receive official recognition or financial support from the University, has been built up largely by the volunteer efforts of Gus Jacaccl, who was coach through 1963, and Charles Gibson, the present coach. Despite the severe handicap of having no place to practice near Cambridge, the Harvard team has qualified for the last three years among the top five teams in the East who ski in the NCAA's against the Western teams...
...more concrete realm than these sentiments, experience has shown many medical schools that some students with the avowed goal of psychiatry sometimes tend to downgrade their basic science courses. This is a genuine handicap, to a student, who must master the basics no matter what his specialty...