Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crewcut, greying man of 60, Ainsworth has a withered right arm and leg, and can use his left arm only from the wrist down as a result of childhood polio. He finished high school in Waco, Texas, in a wheelchair, but set out soon afterward for San Francisco to cover the 1920 Democratic National Convention, at space rates, for the local News Tribune. As it happened, the Democrats merited precious little space for nominating James M. Cox. "I got about $3," recalls Ainsworth. But he went on working for papers from San Pedro to Atlanta before landing a job with...
...Yorkers noted the day proclaimed in tribute to "that grand citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...
...bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab office where a horn-rimmed boss-lady screams into a jangle of telephones and thrusts envelopes to a flunky with: "Wrap...
...tender twosome was getting its lumps in London. Elizabeth Taylor, 30, dislocated a cartilage in her left knee while on the set of her new film, The VIPs, and wound up resting her pretty bones in a wheelchair after what was described as "manipulative surgery," meaning resetting the knee. Poor Richard had his troubles too. Getting into a cab near Paddington railway station, Burton found himself competing for the ride with six narrow-panted Teddy boys. "Suddenly somebody lunged out," recounted Burton afterward. "Then a really small boy got me on the ground and I was helpless. They kicked...
...because I can't stop crying." The doctor goes on: "Are you crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center...