Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the men." "Two girls were eliminated in my class at University of Washington Law, because they just could not bring themselves to argue a rape case," recalls Mary Sanders, who herself has given up practice and is now chief law librarian for the attorney general of California. Another handicap, recalls a male jurist, is that "the men in law school study together, drink coffee together, share their notes, ideas and problems, while the women have to bear the burden as loners...
...well as white students. Negro enrollments would tend to "debilitate" presently all white schools. Under these circumstances, Lowe does not regard civil rights as the only worthwhile goal to be achieved for the Negro. He prefers to devote his own attention to specific psychological or socio-economic disabilities that handicap Negroes in Boston...
...decisive. And regardless of difficulty, it is important to diagnose the disorder early -when there is still hope of arresting it with anticoagulants. It probably is never "cured" in the literal sense, and only rarely is it reversed so thoroughly that the patient is freed of his handicap...
Some brilliant individual performances were wasted for the Crimson as three giant slalom specialists crashed on the course at Big Tupper, in Jay, N.Y. The snowmen were never able to recover from this initial handicap...
Jumper Noyes faces a tough problem that effects the entire squad to some extent: there's no place for him to practice. Aside from calisthenics and running, Noyes' training is confined to weekends and vacations. In view of this handicap, his 21st place finish out of 40 entrants at Dartmouth is considered unbelievably good...