Word: polio
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...Kennedy’s March 7 hearing. Kennedy was not drunk at the time of the incident and the arrest was due to the police officer’s misconstruing Kennedy’s physical condition, Pepe said yesterday. The 60-year-old professor limps because he had polio as a child, according to the lawyer. “It’s hard to fault the police,” he said. “Under 95 percent of the circumstances, they did what was appropriate.” Kennedy left his house around 1 a.m. the night...
...Shell has not always had the mature, composed demeanor that hovers over him today. Although he recovered physically unscarred from a childhood bout of polio, Shell began stuttering around the time of his affliction...
...written several books, most of them on money and literature. However, some of them are more biographical, such as a book on polio and his most recent work, “Stutter...
...says that while scientists are not certain what causes stuttering, he is sure that the shock of having polio and the resulting “trauma of being divided body and soul” triggered the genetic impediment, which has affected other members of his family...
Similarly, analysis about the links between verbal and physical stumbling leads Shell to discuss polio, from which he also suffered as a child and has previously examined in an equally interdisiplinary book...