Word: aycocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share of state spending (76% of the 1959 budget...
Spreading to adults, Aycock's education drive produced the South's first great college extension service at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Its regular faculty members roamed far and wide, by World War I came near their dream of using "the whole state for a campus." Sample of their work: road-planning "institutes" at Chapel Hill (1914-19) kicked off the South's first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country...
House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...
...good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"-they had beaten up a Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known they would...