Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klammer's run in Innsbruck had instantly become a classic of sport-a headlong, fanatical plunge of almost mystical recklessness and desire. But the following year, Klammer's younger brother Klaus, also a racer, fell so badly that he will probably be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After that, some critical edge of aggressiveness departed from Franz Klammer's racing style, and he was unable to make the Austrian team for the 1980 Olympics...
...early last week in which a team of surgeons had amputated his left leg. His general condition, first reported as good, had progressed by midweek to improving. A photograph released a few days after the operation showed Tito, who has ruled his country uninterruptedly since 1945, sitting in a wheelchair, smiling broadly at his two sons. Because of his age, the critical postoperative period could last for several weeks. But the official Tanjug news agency said that Tito had already resumed "some of his duties." Commented a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "He's a tough old bird, and according...
...said one. Douglas was proud of his lonely stands. Said he: "I haven't been much of a proselytizer on the court. I've got the theory that the only soul I had to save was my own." In late 1974 a stroke confined him to a wheelchair. His colleagues delayed any case that Douglas could decide with a tie-breaking vote, but Douglas refused to leave the bench. He was determined, he told a friend, to stay on the court until a Democratic President was elected who could appoint his successor. But his pain became so unbearable...
...clerks loaded up ten carts and off they went, Douglas leading the procession in wheelchair, his secretary pushing and spraying Lysol on the wheels to mask the odor from the bag for his incontinence...The unpleasant odor filled the room...