Word: whang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches...
...most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not been finally settled because of an argument about the disposition of a mare named Whang Bang. Asked Committee Chairman John McClellan: "Is this a kind of whang-bang transaction?" Replied Frank Brewster: "She was a whang-bang mare. She won 40,000-some dollars...
...however, argued that Insurance Man Newell had been much whang-banged in his dealings with Brewster. Reason: the Teamsters' Western Conference, under Frank Brewster, had made Newell the broker and consultant for its health and welfare fund. The annual profit to Newell...
Speakers for a special symposium that night in Agassiz Theatre will be Alice Johnson Brown, Vera Micheles Dean, Ruth Ayres Given, Sybil Alice Stone, and Shia-Chen Whang...