Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
...Adele Lojko, 59, the eight steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door of her suburban Boston home were a barrier as forbidding as the Great Wall of China. Often confined to a wheelchair with severe rheumatoid arthritis, she had to be carried up and down the steps. But now, after many years of needing assistance whenever she came or left, Mrs. Lojko proudly navigates that once insurmountable hurdle by herself, needing only a cane...
Owing to a variety of ailments, the Colbert character zips about the place in a motorized wheelchair. She also slogs down brandy, smokes cigars, plants electronic bugs and starts wastebasket fires in absent-minded moments...
...conduct campaigns that flirt constantly with the unethical practice and the unfair charge. The club and its chairman, Tom Ellis, the Raleigh lawyer who is Helms' most powerful adviser, last year ran their own candidate for Senate in the person of North Carolina's John East, the wheelchair-bound conservative known in Washington as "Helms on wheels." East used club personnel as his campaign staff, club mailing lists for fund raising and Jefferson Marketing Inc., a production company created by the club, to produce his television...
...problem is that Authors Norman Panama and Jerome Chodorov cannot make up their own minds. The identity of the killer has been changed three times, requiring extensive rewriting and relearning of lines. Beyond that, Colbert is supposed to be crippled and must navigate the stage in an electric wheelchair; but the obstreperous machine just won't work right. "I'm black-and-blue from that damned thing," she complains...