Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every distance from 50 kilometers (at 172.92 m.p.h.) to 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.), for a last fling at some new records. On the twelfth lap around the twelve-mile course, hitting 200 m.p.h., the Meteor skidded and mowed down a line of wooden markers before Jenkins could straighten out. As the car began to heat up and smoke, because of a punctured radiator hose line, Jenkins braked to a stop and jumped to safety. He had chalked up 24 new records, including 196.69 m.p.h. for 25 miles. Looking sadly at his smoking racer, Ab announced that...
...purchases meant only one thing: a peyote party was in the making. Soon, at some secret hideaway far out in the desert, men, women & children would be enjoying the transitory delights of a powerful drug. After the party they would have a dismal hangover. The sweets were to help straighten them...
...time might come when the U.S. would have to try it. They expressed personal admiration for MacArthur, yet they backed up President Truman entirely in firing him. They agreed that the handling of the firing was bungled (Admiral Sherman had wanted to send George Marshall to Tokyo "to straighten the matter out"). They hoped that the Korean war might be ended by their present, limited-war strategy-but no one of them could say how it would be done. Except for small details and shadings, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force chiefs stood stoutly together...
Orders went out to clean up Pickett. In Washington, Lieut. General Van Fleet, then Second Army commander, told a Congressman that he had ordered Cramer to straighten out his division, that if Cramer didn't get busy within 24 hours, he, Van Fleet, would issue the orders under his own name. Things got a little better. The leave-policy was eased a bit and some overage officers were relieved of command. But Cramer stayed on and the barracks were still unpainted. "Our day room looked so grimy," said one company commander, "that we painted it ourselves. It cost...
...running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well-tied knots of suspense...