Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never thought of singing until one night, at the insistence of a club manager, he reluctantly intoned Sweet Lorraine to placate a free-spending drunk bellowing requests from the bar. In 1943 he recorded his first vocal number, Straighten Up and Fly Right, which flew right up the bestseller charts. He followed in 1946 with The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . ."), which became an alltime Yule classic...
...Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...into the joint showed that the main trouble was on the inside. The medial meniscus, one of the two pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other...
...Taunted Republican Assemblyman George Ingalls: "All this is but a maneuvering of puppets. A little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens. A little while later another little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens, so he goes back in. Why don't you straighten out your political strings so some little man can come out and blow his horn and stay here...
POOR RICHARD does not register as many laughs as Mary, Mary, but Jean Kerr again produces the wit that is instant wisdom. Alan Bates plays the kind of mixed-up wanderer that women yearn to straighten out and anchor...