Word: cogwheel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the CURL plan has thrown a wrench into the administrative cogwheel at Princeton, most students were unfazed by the changes and went on about their business. Campus-wide issues at Princeton don't attract the excitement and fury they do at Harvard. This year has been especially quiet and was termed "depoliticized" by one frustrated activist and "almost dull" by Andy Brown, who graduated from Princeton' at the height of student turbulence in the 1960s. "It's a little discouraging, actually, that this year has been so quiet," said Brown...
Johnson sketched himself a symbol, a blue eagle clutching a cogwheel and a sheaf of lightning bolts, to be displayed by all employers who complied with the new codes. Then he called for a public boycott of anyone who refused. He asked for union volunteers to act as monitors. And Boy Scouts too. He even used Army Air Corps bombers to ship NRA banners and placards around the country. Said Johnson: "When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits to come into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security...