Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted structure," argues Travis McGee, "I'd live in a house with a Florida room, have 2.7 kids, a dog, a cat, a smiling wife, two cars, a viable retirement and profit-sharing plan, a seven handicap and shortness of breath." McGee, of course, is the swashbuckling hero of 18 John D. MacDonald mystery novels who lives on a houseboat, The Busted Flush, that he won in a poker game. His aversion to structured, land-based predictability is shared by an ever growing number of Americans who live year-round on their boats...
...fact that he has never been in Moscow to parley in the Kremlin with Leonid Brezhnev and the Politburo will be even more of a handicap to Carter when the Soviet chief makes what is almost sure to be a SALT-signing visit in Washington this spring. The Soviet summit is "big casino," in the words of one American. Carter will be dealing with a superpower, not a nation of poverty that happens to reek with potential...
...Soviets have helped Carter out with this handicap of his. They lied to him about their involvement in Africa. Andrei Gromyko's eyeball-to-eyeball prevarication on that occasion is perhaps the greatest breach of diplomatic trust yet experienced by Carter. He believes the Chinese have never lied to him. Beyond that, when the President discussed the world with Teng, both men were somewhat surprised at how much they agreed about Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East. Even at this tentative stage, the Americans who are looking ahead to the Brezhnev meeting see that there will be substantive confrontations...
Turner's brusque and distant personality may be his biggest handicap outside the CIA. He does not get along well with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. He lacks the finesse to soothe CIA critics on Capitol Hill. He has even had his knuckles rapped by his boss. Last November, when Jimmy Carter wrote a memo to a few top advisers criticizing the low quality of their political reporting on Iran, it was interpreted as a scolding of Turner. Understandably, since he is the coordinator of all U.S. intelligence activity as well as head...
Warner said that within several years, "We will reduce, as much as we can, the problems students face because of any sort of physical handicap...