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Word: kickstand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Most of them are lost in time and space. Many cannot judge distances. Billy, for example, is missing the tip of one finger: he was pointing at the whirling wheel of a bicycle on a kickstand and jammed his finger into the spokes, which had seemed to him at a safe distance. Often they cannot count unless they can touch the objects. Most victims have a tantalizingly short attention span, so that teaching them calls for Job-like patience, but paradoxically they suffer from perseveration -the tendency to keep on saying a word or repeating an action long after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Brain-Injured | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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