Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little David returned smiling happily and initiated the "healing services." While the loudspeakers drooled soft organ music, forty of the afflicted lined up in front of the platform. The first patient was a crippled woman in a wheelchair; David called on Jesus to heal this sister then tried a mental suggestion on her. "Don't you feel God's healing power flowing through you? you do, you do!" After five minutes of this, the woman rose out of her chair and walked thirty feet to an empty seat. The audience moaned in amazement; a man behind me cried out "Jesus...
...residential street in the Midwestern town of Cedarsville, workmen were razing the fine old Johnston residence. At an upper window of his own house next door, Ralph Kempner watched the daily progress of destruction from a wheelchair, and backtracked in memory over the 70-odd years of his life. Cedarsville folk naturally wondered what old Kempner was thinking about, because he had always been such a cold, silent fish...
...millionnairess who was crippled in a nasty skiing mishap, Valli suffers from an intense wheelchair neurosis. Cotten, who is not without his own social difficulties, is the man chosen to rehabilitate her. Together, these two unfortunates stage what is probably the most lethargic performance on record. A half-smile from Valli and one darted look from Cotten are the twin peaks of emotion in the film...
...constant irritant, but the patient is unaware of it. All he knows is that he feels better. Most who have had the operation have been relieved of the agonizing spasms of angina pectoris and the paralyzing fear. Many have gone back to work-one from a wheelchair to loading trucks...
...Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen are at his heels...