Word: wheelchair
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Sitting in a golden wheelchair and sporting a dark blue suit, Flynt spoke in support of the ACLU and first amendment rights...
...Nancy paid a visit. "He had just gotten back from the dentist," Jones says. "He had numb lips and all. He stayed seated just about the whole time we were there. But he was in a good mood. He said he was fixing to get up and throw that wheelchair away, and he was going back to work." But to others Cash revealed his resignation. Wilson, who visited Cash at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, says, "He was aware things were closing down for him, and he was at peace. He was ready to go home...
...intention of the first jury, whose award was based not on mere sympathy but on calculations of McDonough's direct financial burden. According to foreman Joanne Kramer, in arriving at the $5.8 million in damages, the jury considered everything from home health-care aides to a van, a wheelchair, the loss of his home and the loss of income for his wife, who spends hours every day caring for him. Jurors also discussed whether McDonough's award would add to rising malpractice premiums but decided he should not be penalized for that. "We still had a responsibility to Mr. McDonough...
...foot, which made walking difficult. A non-Iraqi doctor interviewed by TIME who examined Uday in Baghdad last December says he continues to suffer from seizures and spastic reactions in the muscles of his left leg. His butlers, says one of them, pushed him around his houses in a wheelchair and changed his stainless-steel bedpans when they were full. Uday slept in a twin-size metal-frame hospital bed attended not by fawning women but by a full-time physiotherapist and a butler who says that when he helped him put on his socks each day, Uday screamed...
Three doctors dragged the unconscious man to a wheelchair and pushed him to an emergency room filled with similar unfortunates. Medics hoisted him onto an unsheeted gurney and hooked up a bag of saline. Doctors said he was the 12th gunshot victim in five hours; before the war, they might have handled one such case a day. On another gurney lay a man doctors described as a would-be carjacker, knifed in the lung. Nearby moaned a man with a bandaged right hand he claimed was hurt when he tried to stop a thief. A third patient, writhing...