Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked. The witness claimed that Callan said, "When I count one, two, three−run"−and that both the colonel and McKenzie had opened fire on the fleeing men. "Lying bastard," growled McKenzie from his wheelchair in the dock...
...brooding figure of the Great Emancipator in Washington's Lincoln Memorial has become a symbol for a new kind of freedom for those who are confined to wheelchairs. After a long, hard-fought campaign by a number of groups dedicated to easing the lot of the handicapped, ramps have been built that allow the wheelchair-bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what...
...million Americans in wheelchairs, the gleaming white marble monument has finally become, as they call it, accessible. The symbol* designating that accessibility, a white stick figure on a blue background representing a man in a wheelchair, is posted on the memorial and has been appearing on a growing number of buildings around the U.S. Wherever it appears, the symbol means that the structure has been built or remodeled so that ramps (with a maximum grade of 8.3%) are in place at stairs or curbs, doors are wide enough (at least 32 in.), knobs, buttons or drinking fountains are within reach...
...booklet called "Access Washington" is available to all paraplegic visitors; it lists all of the hotels, Government buildings, stores and other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors are wide enough for two wheelchairs to enter abreast. Washington's new subway system has followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk...
...example, a paraplegic woman, Jacqueline Selph, sued the city council because she was unable to enter a polling place without assistance and was offered only an absentee ballot as an alternative. A veteran is suing a Los Angeles, movie theater that would not allow him to enter in his wheelchair. In New York an attorney brought legal action because he could not get his wheelchair into the municipal court so that he could protest a parking ticket...