Word: wheelchairs
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...agonizingly slow. Up to now, some paraplegics have spent most of their time fighting infections, undergoing surgery. Walking, if finally mastered, is a titanic effort of shoulder muscles - of braces weighing 15 lbs. which take 15 minutes to put on. Most of the patients prefer to stick to the wheelchair...
...lovers get away with the murder for a while-but cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
Franklin Roosevelt had made another decision: to leave his leg braces at home. There was a momentary hush as he came into the chamber in an armless wheelchair. Then there was an ovation. The President slipped into a red plush chair in the well of the House, behind a table lined with a dozen microphones. As the flashbulbs popped and newsreels ground, he turned to wave to Vice President Truman and House Majority Leader McCormack on the dais...
...trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
...length the survivors are assembled safely, and flown back to the States. In Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, Lawson at last sees his wife again. As she comes through the door he stands up from his wheelchair-forgetful of his lost leg-and falls, gruesomely hard, in the most shocking and piteous moment any American war film has yet dared to exhibit...