Word: worsley
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...when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump, no guts?" somebody asked Goalie Lome Worsley, who answered with a brisk curse. But then Center Andy Bathgate stepped quietly onto the sidewalk, and the fans' mood changed abruptly. "Attaboy, Andy," they murmured. "Attaboy, Andy baby...
...coypu reached England in 1927 from Argentina, imported by several East Anglian farmers who wanted to cash in on the market for nutria coats. Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped. The wild coypus in England are descendants of those first escapees...
Married. Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, 25, captain in the Royal Scots Greys, currently eighth in succession to the British throne; and Katharine Worsley, 28, onetime schoolmarm, daughter of a former Yorkshire County cricketer; in York Minster...
Britain's bachelor Duke of Kent, 25, the first cousin of the Queen and eighth in succession to the throne, was an elusive catch. Commoner Katherine Worsley, 28, a descendant of Regicide Oliver Cromwell, seemed hardly a likely captor, yet for four years, the couple sporadically courted. A captain in the Royal Scots Guards, the Duke was a heavy-footed hot-rodder ("100 miles an hour suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton...
...cargo never comes. Then, instead of abandoning the cult, they tend to form splinter groups, organized around a "purer" faith. As long as the islanders' social situation remains unchanged, says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...