Word: cog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent is to praise Davis for having given the game of tennis its proudest trophy in 1900. "It was as if some sage mechanic, looking over a creaking and unbalanced machine, discovered what was missing to make it run and added the one tiny cog which caused the contraption to function in a way undreamed of by its maker...
...Southern Cog. At week's end, Scott had at least 16 of the 22 votes he needed for victory. With a strong record in favor of civil rights, the Pennsylvanian attracted virtually all of the liberal faction-New York's Jacob Javits and Charles Goodell, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Charles Percy, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, and others. Yet Scott's record has not been so liberal as to make him completely unacceptable to conservatives. He passed the Administration's loyalty test, for example, by voting...
...project a more youthful and agreeable image of the Senate G.O.P. But electing the Tennessean, who only came to the Senate in 1967, would violate senatorial traditions of seniority. Some moderates were also fearful that elevating Baker, who has consistently voted with the Administration, would seem to add a cog to the Nixon-Thurmond "Southern strategy...
There has been one big change, of course. Calkins has taken the trouble to explain the policies to students, even if the policies themselves are unchanged. For students who never really believed that the Corporation was a functioning cog in the military-industrial complex, Calkins' effort was enough...
...because it is hamstrung by its connections with Harvard (less severely with MIT) and by its financial dependence on foundations and government agencies. When it makes occasional forays into active planning, it is forced to work with paying government agencies rather than grass-roots groups. (The Center is a cog in the system...