Word: wheelchaired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boyle, thin and haggard at 72, some times relying on a wheelchair, betrayed little emotion as he was led out of the courtroom, head bowed. Said Sprague: "I felt right back from the beginning that it was Boyle. I knew that I would never get to the top in one snap. It was going to be a slow process. Had we lost any one of the previous cases leading up to Boyle, the chain would have been broken...
...Lorain, Ohio. Added Mrs. Sarah Scheuer of Youngstown, Ohio: "I'm pleased that at long last there will be an accounting before the law." Kent State Student Dean Kahler, 24, who was struck in the spine by a Guardsman's bullet and is now confined to a wheelchair, declared: "This re-establishes my faith in the grand jury system. The American system of justice finally prevailed...
...group of men who must work while their women anxiously wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in a Love Story with wheelchair called The Affair. There were also obvious borrowings from Hollywood hits-among the recent ones: several mini-Poseidon adventures with oddly assorted casts trapped in runaway trains and stalled elevators and even an elegiac western whose gimmick was readily apparent from the title, Mrs. Sundance...
...back most of the time, staring despondently at the ceiling, receiving few people. His political career seemed as shattered as his spine from the bullets of Arthur Bremer. This month Wallace once again attended the annual Governors Conference, but he was a rejuvenated man: he sat upright in his wheelchair, attentively following the proceedings and obviously basking in his celebrity status. His career has recovered along with his body and spirit...
...instantly-always at great length and with illustrations. Hašek's Švejk was a Czech and like most Czechs was a reluctant subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially after World War I broke out. When Svejk is drafted despite his rheumatic legs, he borrows a wheelchair, crutches and an old army cap, gets himself wheeled through the streets of Prague on his way to the induction station, crying "On to Belgrade!", and is apotheosized by the official press as the most gallant of volunteers for the great glory of the Austro-Hungarian cause. Thereafter he contrives...