Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion...
...Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output as "low British rubbish." A trained architect (though he flunked his Cambridge exams) and a wizard handyman, Snowdon designed the impressive new aviary at the London Zoo and an improved motorized wheelchair. In sum, he calculates that he spends 80% of his life being Antony Armstrong-Jones and 20% being Lord Snowdon...
...with attempted murder. Since then, however, neither the authorities nor Elrod has shown much interest in prosecuting the case. After a grand jury reduced the charge against Flanagan to aggravated battery, the prosecution consented to three continuances. The reason for their reluctance seems political, not judicial. Campaigning in a wheelchair, Elrod is running for sheriff, and the trial can only hurt his campaign...
...caused by brain swelling). Aided by his teammates, who inaugurated the annual Maurice Stokes All-Star Game to raise funds for his therapy, he began a gallant struggle for recovery. Completely helpless at first, he eventually regained partial use of his hands and voice, but was confined to a wheelchair until his death...