Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aqueduct race track, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool, Ted Atkinson up, won the seven-furlong, $59,800 Carter Handicap in a time that equaled the track record, 1:22, despite the formidable assigned weight...
...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
Save for the fact that his "little mouth protruded like a snout," that his jaw was chinless and that he had almost no neck, Garry Templemore was a fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's Tom Fool broke fast, led all the way to win the mile-and-a-quarter $58,000 Suburban Handicap by a nose. His time: a scorching 2:00 3/5, the second fastest time in the handicap's 67-year history...
...campus legend has it that he was outraged when the University of Wisconsin told him that he would have to type his thesis (he had written it out in longhand on scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours. "Treat 'em like grownups," he would say of his students. "But remember, they...