Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with this tongue-tied autobiographical speculation is that contrary to the words of his song, Neil Young stays resolutely on top-on the surface, in fact. An esteemed singer-songwriter and sometimes part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he is working under a handicap in his first movie. Young conceived the film himself, directed it and cut it, all with the same impenetrable seriousness that characterizes much of his music. It is easier to get away with recording your dreams and your fantasies on vinyl than on film. Songs are shorter, and a good melody can often...
Mayer said he recognizes that the current two-digit inflation rate in the U.S. presented a real handicap to moves to extend U.S. assistance abroad...
Radcliffe was at a handicap early in the meet when one of its star swimmers, tri-capt. Nancy Sato, was late because she was playing in the Radcliffe-Yale field hockey game. As a result, the Crimson did not do as well in the medley relay without Sato as it had done the week before, when Radcliffe established an IAB pool record...
...enemies called us terrorists, our friends patriots," wrote Menachem Begin, head of the Irgun, in words that could be used by any terrorist at any time. Begin has found his past associations no handicap in Israel; he now sits in the Knesset as leader of the opposition Likud bloc. Another Irgun member, Arie Ben-Eliezer, served as deputy speaker of the Knesset, and Nathan Yellin-Mor, a leader of the Stern Gang, won a seat in the Israeli parliament only a few months after the murder of Count Bernadotte...
Among the Democrats, Alabama Governor George Wallace has declined in acceptability to 38% from 42% in May; in both surveys, slightly more than half found him unacceptable. But the potential candidacy of Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson seems to have flourished, though his major handicap still is the fact that about half of the people surveyed do not know enough about him to have an opinion. Still, his rating since May has climbed from 25% to 30%, while the proportion of those who find him unacceptable has declined slightly, from...