Word: shebang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list for a man to lead the largest army that any nation in history had ever fielded. "Looks like I'm going to London next week," Eisenhower told his wife. "I'm going to be in command there." Mamie asked: "In command of what?" Ike answered: "Of the whole shebang...
...some shebang. First as Chief of the U.S. forces and then as commander of all Allied troops, Eisenhower led the most awesome military machine the world had yet seen, eventually to number more than 4,000,000 men. Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast...
...opera by Belgium's Henri Pousseur, the first U.S. performances of new works by Penderecki and Greek-born lannis Xenakis, a new movie by Underground Mogul Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called "Plus by Minus: Today's Half-Century" at the Albright-Knox Gallery (see color opposite...
...Italy's film makers, the lesson was clear: Hi-ho, denaro, awaaay! Suddenly every actor in Italy was sitting short in the saddle and mowing down the bad guys with twelve shots from his six-shooter. Since Leone began the whole shebang-bang, Italian directors have cranked out 180 eastern westerns. Some of them, such as For a Thousand Dollars a Day and For Still More Dollars, are blatant copies. Most are long on gore but short on lore. One popular horse opera is set in Minnesota, a notorious badland just across the border from Mexico...
Lockheed's rigid-rotor design, in effect, makes the whole shebang a stable flying gyroscope. The concept-rigid blades attached directly to the rotor shaft-was tried and dropped in the '20s; experimenters found that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick...