Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world addicted to pretentious sham, Billy Carter enjoys and insists on just being himself, in spite of the massive handicap of a genetic coincidence. Obviously being born once was enough...
...consciousness of members by citing famous stutterers, among them Moses, Demosthenes, Darwin and Maugham. Members also learn about well-known "closet cases" who go through elaborate rituals and word substitutions in public to conceal their affliction. To the N.S.P., trying to cover up a stammer is bad; the handicap must be announced frankly and faced...
Crosby became not only an avid but also a proficient golfer, as he whittled his handicap down to two. In 1940 he was a sectional qualifier for the U.S. Open and in 1950 he qualified to play in the British Amateur at St. Andrews. Playing before a huge gallery Crosby, whose home course then was the Bel-Air Country Club, began his first match in the Amateur by scoring threes on the first pair of holes...
...sees his bishops only in groups; many would prefer individual meetings on some topics and consider this a serious handicap. Decision-making processes within the Vatican show signs of Paul's flagging energy. Says one secretariat official: "Papers that we urgently require are delayed. Often we have to phone the Pope's secretary for instructions right on the eve of an important meeting-instructions we have requested weeks before." It is nine years since Paul has issued an encyclical (the last was his controversial birth control decree...
...market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such a high markup on both diamonds and stamps that the buyer has to wait years before the retail price rises enough to overcome the markup...