Word: retreads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...council sees it, key solutions include solid sabbaticals to retread teachers, summer institutes that really teach English (many just skimp it), helpful supervision by master English teachers rather than bureaucratic administrators. The majority of high school teachers, says the council, "have never had an opportunity to confer with a college professor of English or English education or with a special English supervisor." Without reforms, warns James R. Squire, the council's executive secretary, English classes across the country will go on wallowing in "dull, lifeless teaching" devoid of "one iota of excitement...
...like a page from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General Manager Fred Haney was fired by the St. Louis Browns and the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...Internal Revenue Service's basic guide to businessmen and tax agents in reckoning tax write-off allowances (Bulletin F) was last revised in 1942. It is geared to the patch-and-retread psychology of the Depression and the war, takes little account of the rapid pace of technology in which a machine may be made obsolete by a better model a year after it is installed. In the iron and steel industry, the life of machinery is an average 25 years. On the straight-line basis of tax deductions applying to all pre-1954 purchased equipment, such machinery...