Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since May 18, sit in the capitol rotunda for three hours each day. One of the fasters, Sonia Johnson, 46, who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for her support of the ERA, has been hospitalized twice for muscle spasms and an adverse drug reaction, and is in a wheelchair; her weight has dropped from...
...rooms when necessary. But the official Harvard policy is not couched in the absolutes of the Federal rules. Administrators say they will "make every effort" to accommodate students, but they cannot guarantee absolute success. Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to the dean of the Faculty, says for example that wheelchair-bound students will never be able to take Fine Arts 13, since it is given in the Fogg Museum...
After the police talked to the woman and found that she had taken a prescription drug, they called the Cambridge Fire Department, the driver said. The paramedics removed the woman in a wheelchair, and took her to the Cambridge Hospital, a witness added...
...some potential export candidates. Among the one-acters, The New Girl, by Vaughn McBride is a very winning entry. The setting is a room in the Flossie Patch Nursing Home in Burley, Idaho. Clarissa (Anne Pitoniak) is bedridden, and Flo (Susan Kingsley) tools in on a health" to wheelchair get out the reporting first that time she and she'll "faked do it again. "I'm a lifer," responds Clarissa, but not despairingly. The two women are feisty graveyard jesters and the word terminal is not in their vocabulary...
Amazingly, Hawking has done his ground-breaking research despite a tremendous handicap. For the last 20 years the physicist has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, a terminal degenerative illness of the nerves and muscles. Now, at 40, Hawking remains confined to an electrically controlled wheelchair and has difficulty holding his neck up when he speaks. Even then his voice barely escapes--it comes out sometimes as a guttural moan--and Hawking generally travels with an interpreter...