Word: shebang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good house in Cleveland. There, he presented a gift of a Russian troika (three splendid, high-stepping white horses and carriage) to his host, aging (75) Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards himself as a kind of missionary for Russian...
...palaces, the annual petty cash will come in handy to maintain his three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children and some 3,400 palace guards and flunkeys. Lately, however, the Nizam has been riled by repeated hotfoots from New Delhi, official hints that he ought to pack up his whole shebang and trundle out of Hyderabad to his flossy mansion in Bombay. India's Premier Nehru himself has penned some politely worded eviction notes to the Nizam, but for reasons beyond India's tottery postal system to explain away, the Nizam never seems to get them-even though...
...which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses (TIME, April 7), the deal, if the stockholders approve, means accepting a subordinate position. President Charles W. Perelle will stay on as head of the new company's bus division. But boss of the whole shebang will be Paul E. Reinhold, 58, the man who made Foremost foremost among the South's independent dairies...
...winds of labor trouble, special-interest pressures, politicking and contradictory objectives whistling through Washington are already rattling the windows of Di Salle's office in a drab, slab building known as Tempo (for temporary) E. They may grow strong enough any day to blow down the whole stabilization shebang, Di Salle included...
Part of the controversy came with the job-running the fantastically costly, jerry-built farm-support machinery imposed on the nation by a generation of vote-conscious Congresses. The rest he brought on himself-by proposing to replace the whole shuddering shebang with a new and equally fantastic contraption known as the Brannan Plan...