Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we become dulled by it. There should be a doorman or a maid or something--someone to set off the shrieking and flyings ashtrays. That, or a tauter script. After the play's rambling dialogues, its climactic scene in which Scooper leaves his blind mother talking to a wheelchair while he and Dierdre run off (to Doubleday?) leaves you cold...
...like homemade jam and freshly baked bread prepared by Burger himself. The Chief has been particularly considerate to Douglas since the old liberal retired from the court in 1975; he has called on him regularly, and personally supervised the construction of a ramp into the court for Douglas' wheelchair. (Douglas, a brilliant but acerbic man, was less kind to Burger while still on the bench. In conversations with his clerks, he referred to Burger not as "the Chief but as "this Chief...
Then John Paul did an utterly characteristic thing. Leaving the cathedral, he turned left at the foot of the altar and headed for the only wheelchair in the church and Jane De Martino, 26 paralyzed as the result of an accident that severed her spinal column...
...death of Eugenia, his wife of 59 years. Then, stepping out of a golf cart, he wrenched his knee and had a severe reaction to cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. "Nobody wanted to decide anything without hearing from George, and he was just not around enough...
...ordinary heterosexual acts with Lady C. The difficulty with such speculation is that the term latent covers a long and slippery gradient. One might just as casually assume latent homosexual content in the movie Coming Home, that contemporary switch on Lady Chatterley in which the guy in the wheelchair gets the girl...