Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burden of the defense-beyond pleading that the rapists were not responsible for their crime by reason of youth or mental deficiency-was that the girl had willingly joined in sexual intercourse. That line was devastatingly rebutted by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Slappey, the first cop to talk to the victim after the crime. Asked to describe her condition, Slappey said that she was trembling, crying, "jerking all over and hysterical...
...things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must either run or positively forbid the use of his name, Rockefeller replied with a broad grin: "I'll have to make a mental note of that...
...State of Texas For the Best Interest and Protection of Earl Long, A Mentally Ill Person , . . because of his mental illness is likely to cause immediate injury to himself or others if not immediately restrained . . . It is therefore ORDERED that the said EARL LONG be, and he hereby is, detained in protective custody...
...followed in Washington, D.C.) re-emphasized a sad, subtle U.S. segregation of another kind. In 14 major cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, it blights 25% to 35% of 3,200,000 children in public schools. Worried schoolmen call it "the problem of the culturally handicapped." They mean the mental ghettos in which thousands of dispirited Negro children live because no one-teachers or parents-can stir them to care...
...problem has been complicated by the fact that people live longer nowadays. In the past, it was expected that a man would not live much past 70, but today youngsters of eighty and ninety have not yet lost their mental keeness. Many emeritus professors still lead full and active lives. If they are not studying or lecturing, they are often traveling or catching up on all the reading they missed while busy teaching. Because of the high cost of scientic experiment, not all retiring professors can be fully accommodated. However, unlike the old soldier, the old scholar refuses to fade...