Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade or the opening day at Lincoln Downs, but this time they were waiting for the Democratic nominee for president. They smoked their cigars just the same and they talked ward politics as usual, and only when the sound of the train became too loud did they straighten their coat collars and snuff out their cigars...
Last month, in a Satevepost article, Washington Correspondent Beverly Smith tried to straighten out Truman-and history-once and for all. Smith proved that there was a bathtub in the White House long before Fillmore's administration, probably as far back as Andrew Jackson...
...TIME, July 28). Behind them, egging them on, was Walter Reuther. Moody's performance for the cause was the most appalling of all, for in his arguments before the credentials committee he became so mixed up that his ally, New York's Franklin Roosevelt Jr., had to straighten him out-which is like being saved from drowning by a three-year...
...gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and treated his Premiers as he did his girl friends, changing them constantly (five Premiers in one six-month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government. But inevitably, Hilaly's probings led close to Farouk's palace gang, and the King dumped the honest Premier...
...statistical turn of mind, look like Herbert Hoover. The Indian and the engineer once met. Hoover was pleased to discover that each carried the same make of cheap watch (Gandhi's was pinned to his loincloth). "A mark of our common humility," said Hoover. The urge to straighten things out, shared by Gandhi, is what has kept Hoover so busily at work...