Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cockeyed Miracle, Ghost Frank Morgan, 56, and his late father, thirtyish Keenan Wynn, who obviously died at an early age, wander raffishly through a romantic farce. Their problem: to straighten out a few domestic-financial tangles which were left unsolved when Mr. Morgan was struck down by a heart attack. The movie is inoffensive fooling, but talented Comics Morgan and Wynn have reason to accuse their employers of unkind and inhuman treatment...
About all the public could do was lie down on the floor too. A faltering WSB got ready to meet again this week, figure out some way to get Johnny back on his ship and straighten out this latest venture in Government control. No one had any solution to this strike against the Government but to give in to Johnny...
Meanwhile, Bill glowered and complained that he had always taken the rap for the diabolical George. First it was petty theft. Next it was assault, then murder. Bill swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert...
...first unpalatable taste of politics. National finances were in chaos after 20 changes of government in five years. Salazar was invited to come to Lisbon to straighten them out. He took a look at the parliamentary confusion and, in deep disgust, demanded a free hand with the Treasury. Refused, he caught the next train back to the sedge-lined banks of the Mondego. He expressed his contempt for Lisbon's attempts at democracy and said that "one of the greatest mistakes of the 19th Century (which created the 'citizen'-an individual isolated from the family, the class...
Ebbing sales gave circulation veterans no alarm. The country's 105,000 newsstands were crowded beyond reason anyway, and survival of the fittest might straighten things out by fall. That would clear the decks for a more exciting war: the coming fight for public favor between the fittest...