Word: cog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal warfare that is continually going on. The varsity's midseason string of more than 200 scoreless minutes produced two extremely vocal clashes. In the 0-0 tie with Williams, Eph goalie Bob Adams continually exhorted his teammates to "get the big guy"--Keyes, the Crimson's main defensive cog. The Ephmen did their best, once actually dazing the big full-back, but they could not halt his effectiveness...
...would seem that the last vestige of capriciousness and malpractice in Cambridge has slipped away without anyone noticing. The City Council could threaten students with no more than the loss of pinball machines. In the Administration, every gear seems well-oiled, every cog in place: from course reduction to the Program for Harvard College, the flaws are harder to detect, harder to remove. Even the commuters seem to be happy with their lot. There is, as yet, no definite program for next year's non-honors juniors, the Social Sciences have been handing out their usual paucity of Summas...
...compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just a cog in the machine. The real boss of our outfit was Joanovici...
Molotov. "He let nothing escape him that appeared spontaneous. In Molotov, who was, and wanted to be, merely a perfectly adjusted cog in an implacable machine, I thought I had identified a complete success of the totalitarian system. I could feel the melancholy...
Somewhat of a traveller, Mace's favorite spot is on the Matterhorn-Zermatt, which is reached only by cog railway. And those who expect to live on an expense account in the future, or like fine food, might want to jot down his pick of New York restaurants: Miako's for steak and lobsters, Christ Cella, and, downtown, Peter's Backyard, on West Tenth Street...