Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Inglewood, Calif., William Goetz's Your Host over Calumet Farm's Ponder (by a nose) and Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince (by another neck) in the $35,000 Thanksgiving Day Handicap, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...Chinese Communist air force had a tactical advantage oyer the U.S. Far East Air Force last week. U.S. pilots were under strict orders not to cross the Korea-Manchuria border, or even to fire across it. Communist flyers, under no such handicap, were staging hit & run raids across the frontier...
Some people will observe--and justly so--that it is a relatively simple thing to keep us the spirits of a sophomore football player, and and there are 19 sophomores on the 45-man squad. But sophomores have been a handicap as well as a help to Lloyd Jordan, the head coach. While he has perhaps found it fairly easy to maintain the morale of the sophomores, it is also true that they lack the experience of the seniors. When a new coach comes in football is usually at a low ebb and frequently there is an abundance of seniors...
...Massachusetts, the Republicans' spry old (69) ex-Lieut. Governor Arthur W. Coolidge reacted to taunts about his age by challenging his Democratic rival Governor Paul A. Dever, to a 100-yd. race. "And furthermore," said Coolidge (a fourth cousin of Calvin Coolidge), "I'll give him a handicap of a foot for each year of difference in our ages." Dever, a World War II naval officer who is 47 but notably on the portly side, did not choose to race...
Registered with the Jockey Club, in time for this week's Petworth handicap hurdles where her five-year-old Manicou is scheduled to run: Queen Elizabeth's racing colors, blue and buff with black cap and gold tassel. She was the first English queen to register since Queen Anne founded Royal Ascot...