Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said...
...expressed the sincere hope that the United States will be friendly to Russia and that he can help to straighten out all the "misrepresentations of Russia in this country...
Although the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, by which Mexico, Canada, Cuba and the U. S. hope to unsnarl the untidy tangle of wave lengths in this continent, will probably not go into effect until late this year, Mexico is trying to straighten out its aerial relations with the U. S. Soon to go into effect is a U. S.-Mexican agreement to exchange four clear channels from Mexico for four clear channels from the U. S. Benefited by this agreement will be 90,000 set owners in the Federal District, more than half of the owners elsewhere in Mexico...
After the Jolt, Yosuke Matsuoka quickly rebounded, confident that he was the man to straighten things out. He has not felt many twinges of modesty in his 60 years. Urbane, roly-poly, positive as an electric shock, with a flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates...
...intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once carried his loving serpents he has scooped the black sand, richly loaded with titanium. It will be tested in Europe. Negresses will use it to straighten their hair...