Word: worley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody agreed that James Worley, head of the English department at big (1,160 students) Fox Lane High School near Mount Kisco, N.Y., was just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...
...demonstration of how such teamwork pays off. The track was soft and spongy as the qualifying runs began, so Bettenhausen, like his rivals, had geared his car low to reduce skidding. But when he finally made his own run the surface had turned clay-hard. Tony had Mechanic Tiny Worley hike his gear ratio for the fast track. When the starting flag dropped, he roared away from his lower-geared competition, won the event going away...
...Texas elected its first Republican Congressman in 19 years and the fourth in its history. In a special election in the Panhandle, likable Ben Guill, 40, of Pampa, onetime lieutenant in the Navy, won over ten Democrats seeking the seat of Representative Eugene Worley, 41, also a Navy veteran, who resigned to take a judgeship. Guill got only 8,000 of the 35,000 votes cast, but the rest were shredded among his Democratic opponents. "I'm no intellectual giant and I don't have any ideas about going to the capital and changing up the Government," said...