Word: wheelchairs
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...they walked back to the car Carlo felt a little like Rex Humbard, or Oral Roberts, or maybe Billy Graham. He glanced at his mother, who by now was beaming like the lady in the wheelchair who gets up and hollers "I Believe" every night at the Oral Roberts meeting, and at his father, who looked pretty well converted too. In fact, Lou looked like he'd been born-again, all fire and enthusiasm and eagerness to give all he owned for the cause...
...Oliver ("Daddy") Warbucks (Reid Shelton) makes a request for an orphan child on whom to lavish a billionaire's Christmas bounty. Guess the rest; it's no great test. Of course, you might not guess that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be tastelessly trundled on in a wheelchair and be smarmily caricatured by Raymond Thorne. And you might not dream that the updated Daddy Warbucks is as chummy with F.D.R. as he is with Bernard Baruch...
...these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even an electrical hoist like the one that helps Susan Foss...
This would undoubtedly be a better account of the Boston Marathon if there were space to tell the story of Bob Hall, who conquered the difficult course on a wheelchair in a time of about 2:40. Or that of Will Rodgers, a former winner and Boston's beloved All-American boy who, after leading in the early going, dropped out of the race in Newton with a leg problem. Or that of the hectic start at Hopkinton, where the record field of over 3000 runners vied with Paul Newman (making a movie on the race) for the overflow crowd...
...waiting for him in the cavernous West Sitting Hall: Rosalynn, wearing a red sweater, kissing the President as he enters; Amy, ready for bed in an ankle-length nightgown; the President's mother, Miss Lillian, whom the nation has come to think of as indefatigable, now using a wheelchair because of the arthritis in her legs; Rosalynn's mother; Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. Like the President, the other members of the Carter clan seem tired. Chip is holding his six-week-old son James Earl Carter IV in his arms. The baby is asleep...