Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a conference with a committee from the National Association of Broadcasters, Harry Truman bemoaned the "handicaps and burdens" of his office-particularly the handicap of living the lives of two men, that of a President and that of a human being. "I recognize that in the eyes of the world the office of President is the greatest a man could hold," he said. "Sometimes the frailties of the human get the better of me. Sometimes I have to work awfully hard on the human being...
Heading the entry list were 1950's Horse of the Year Hill Prince, and Handicap Champion Noor. Right behind them, in anybody's book: the leading three-year-old filly, Next Move, and Calumet's handicap star, Ponder (total winnings: $541,275). Others which had to be given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record...
...effectiveness of the U.N. air force had been severely limited by the fact that, like U.N. ground and naval forces, it was forbidden to strike at the enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s reverses, said MacArthur, was sheer weight of numbers. "As far as I can see," said MacArthur, "no strategical or tactical mistakes were made of any basic proportion...
...Best Thing. Faced with their child's deafness, says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...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...