Word: cog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wire-tapped phone conversations made in 1955, after Dio supposedly had left the labor movement. One tap convinced listeners that Dio was still playing a heavy hand in extortion ("I'm telling him to put the pickets back on"). The other showed that Dio is a cog of sorts in the Hoffa machinery, which includes such officials as Teamster Organizer George Baldanzi. Teamsters' Eastern Conference Chairman Tom Flynn, and St. Louis Teamster Boss Harold Gibbons. And it also showed that one Tony "Ducks" Corallo, a mean-sounding tough with a long narcotics record, may well be a bigger...
...want to be very emphatic about this," Yovicsin said, "coaches are just a cog in the wheel...
...appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
Career & Training. Born and raised on a farm near Saratoga in eastern Indiana, "Cog" was one of two in the local high school's senior class. At Indiana University he waited on tables to help pay for his tuition in zoology, then got a Rockefeller Foundation job in malaria research. This gave him the idea that he needed an M.D. Back at Indiana U. he helped pay tuition by teaching physiology to prospective embalmers...
...devise strategy for evading the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation order, Virginia's Governor Thomas B. Stanley appointed a legislative commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray, a dependable cog in U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic Party organization. The Gray Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...