Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stargel's ailment--which, incidentally, did not ostensibly result from football, according to Jordan--could thus give the Crimson a major handicap against the appearently-strong Lions...
Lack of practice plus the absence of several of last year's standouts will handicap the Crimson in its opener, but the squad is expected to be as good or better than the 1951-52 team once it gets going...
...summer they are sent out to talk to at least 200 strangers. They keep notes on how those strangers react, and are amazed to find that only one in 100 would ever dream of ridiculing them. As their fear melts away, the stutterers relax and begin to face their handicap...
Because of the age handicap, Barkley is an outsider in the Democratic race, but an interesting outsider...
...primary election, generally thought to be the most democratic procedure for nominating candidates for office, has long been a handicap to Massachusetts Republicans. It has the effect of shutting off the G.O.P. from the state's powerful groups of non-Yankee voters, especially Irish, Italians, French Canadians and Jews. Party leaders have tried to appeal to non-Yankees by putting up non-Yankee candidates, but the overwhelming Yankee majority in Republican primaries tends to defeat the non-Yankees. Result: the Massachusetts Republicans often go into general elections with "unbalanced" tickets...