Sentence examples for bout of polio from inspiring English sources

A bout of polio as a boy left him with a lifelong limp.

At twenty, Heyward, who had been weakened by a bout of polio at eighteen, got a job as a customs worker among black stevedores on the Charleston waterfront and was awed by their strength.

Based on the true story of Mark O'Brien, a journalist from California bed-bound since childhood after a bout of polio, The Sessions is the improbably cheery, touching and surprisingly funny story of Mark's quest to lose his virginity.

From the age of five until nine, Kerry saw his mother Gretel perhaps half a dozen times, though some of this dislocation was admittedly due to a bout of polio that meant nine months in an iron lung and two years in Canberra with a private nurse.

She was expected to help out in the fields when she was just six years old--the same year she had a bout of polio that left her with a lifelong limp.

The long skirts also benefitted Kahlo in that they disguised her infirmities: her withered right leg, the result of a bout of polio she contracted at the age of six; and the effects of that devastating traffic accident, wherein her spine was broken in three places, her uterus pierced through, and her foot crushed.

His father died when he was young, and his mother, a published poet, brought him up in genteel poverty made worse by bouts of polio and pleurisy.

After the war, McNamara contemplated a return to Harvard, but when he and his wife were briefly stricken with bouts of polio, he accepted a better-paying offer at Ford Motor Co. McNamara joined a coterie of young aides hired by Chairman Henry Ford II to shake up the firm with statistical analysis, the rigorous use of figures to measure trends and improve systems.

As the world turns into the year that will always be identified with him, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, has been busy fending off reporters with a good-natured verve, despite a painful bout of post-polio syndrome, which causes muscle and joint pain and fatigue.

In "Of Men and Mountains," a personalized travel guide to his native state of Washington, Douglas recalled his triumphant bout with polio at the age of 2, though in fact he had suffered from an intestinal colic.

He has a leg brace because of an early bout with polio.