Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After an attack of sciatica cut short his U.S. concert tour, Britain's explosive Sir Thomas Beecham flew home to London where he was trundled through customs in a wheelchair. His plans? Said Lady Beecham to reporters: "He's going to do what I tell him for a change." Fumed Sir Thomas: "I've always done what she tells me. Marriage is one of the subtler forms of tyranny-imponderable but effective...
...disintegration of this granite-faced man, whose steely strength and craftiness unified a sprawled sand ocean of 900,000 square miles and its 6,000,000 warriorlike people, has brought uncertainty to the country. The old man now seldom rises from the wheelchair which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave him after Ibn Saud admired Roosevelt's. He sometimes embarrasses visitors by falling asleep in mid-conversation...
...Brucker, 27, intern in "Female Admitting," shook his head and patted the brother on the shoulder. The woman was wheeled away, for oxygen and digitalis, and more detailed examination. The next case, a woman with an injured leg, arrived in a wheelchair...
...women can see out but no one can see in. For himself, Ibn Saud is getting a $20,000 mahogany-paneled trailer from Tulsa, Okla., which has a throne room, a bedroom (with a 5-by-7-ft. bed) and an elevator to load & unload the King in his wheelchair...
...heard the Boston Pops Orchestra accompany a tenor in those lines of Evening Prayer, then stood to cheer. The composer, whom they were applauding, could not stand to acknowledge the cheers; Robert Grant Jr., 27, is partially paralyzed with multiple sclerosis. But he bobbed his head happily from his wheelchair near the stage. "This is the greatest night of my life," he said...