Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it took both my parents to hold him while they gave him hot baths to ease the tension. The results of this condition were discovered when electroencephalographic tests were made recently: the area of the brain was damaged which controls the inhibition animal impulses. A child with this handicap would have had difficulty adjusting to a favorable environment. But it is hard for anyone who has had the blessing of a loving family to realize the nightmare Billy and I lived...
...history: the Cain Hoy Stable's Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' ¶At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, was retired to stud with a farewell parade around the track after,' the running of the $80,400 Empire City Gold Cup (won by the Charfran Stable's Crafty Admiral). Out of the money only once in 30 starts and unbeaten...
...Baltimore, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, top handicap horse of 1953, ran his undefeated streak to ten straight by taking the $50,000 Pimlico Special, under a tight rein, in the track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy...
First the youngsters learn that Hood is on their side; soon they strike up friendships among the other students. But when, thanks to specialized and often individualized teaching techniques, they begin to overcome their handicap, they must be taught not to withdraw into their own society. "I keep telling them that this is a hothouse setup," says Hood, "that it isn't quite normal. Every chance I get, I take them with me to the cleaner's, the market or a restaurant. Then, with the security of the school behind them, they begin to cope with the world...
Regardless of injuries, odds, and even predictions of wet weather, a definite handicap to a passing team such as Dartmouth, Crimson Coach Lloyd Jordan is restricting any optimism about the outcome of the game...