Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described the Negro child as born with a handicap he can never outgrow or fully accept. The child sees that his parents are frustrated and that his school "is not serious about him." When he is exposed to the ideals of democracy, he realizes that he is blocked only because of his color...
...plight was something to hide, but Old Joe finally decided. "It's best to bring these things out in the open." He lavishly endowed the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which has spent $17 million on care for the retarded and research into the causes of their handicap...
...Yardlings controlled the ball during most of the game, though they were unable to force across the winning score, a handicap which contributed to their two other losses of the season...
...often play a sort of gourmet game. They walk along the corridors in the evening trying to guess who is having the roast rack of lamb, the corned beef and cabbage, or the Liederkranz cheese. It is a very easy game, but the Lalky incinerator system often provides a handicap by giving off all-pervading whiffs of old eggs and sour milk...
...Senator Warren Magnuson ) had been hurt by drinking, driving and marital problems. He was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking office for the first time. A federal indictment for trying to influence a mail fraud case was too great a handicap for Maryland's Thomas Johnson, who was unseated by Rogers Morton, strapping younger brother of Kentucky's victorious Senator Thruston Morton...