Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been barnstorming through a succession of Australian provincial tournaments for three months. Moreover, he got some expert informal coaching this trip from Adrian Quist, Davis Cup veteran and three-time Australian champion. In 14 hours of friendly drill, Quist helped Savitt improve his service grip and straighten out his hard, flat drives...
...which a French and a Dutch battalion had been incorporated) had held a horseshoe salient just south of the town, from which the allied force could rake it with artillery. Early last week, Eighth Army Headquarters announced that the salient was being given up in order to shorten and straighten the allied line. The withdrawal was carried out under artillery and air protection which prevented enemy interference...
Defense Secretary George Marshall was trying to straighten out the snafu. He ordered the services i) to make up their minds how many more men they will need in the next six months, 2) give 30 days notice to those who are going to be recalled, 3) inform all others they will not be mobilized for at least four months. He also directed that reservists should be kept on active duty only until volunteers and draftees meet manpower requirements. Around the Pentagon, estimates of those requirements went up again last week with reports of the reverses in Korea...
...gerrymandering, the Democrats charge that Republicans mapped out extremely abnormal districts when they were in power after the last census, and that a Democratic General Court--the legislature in Massachusetts--will straighten them out. The Republicans do not try to deny this charge; they merely state that the Democrats will surely gerrymander the state their...
Radford was called back to Washington to straighten out Navy air administration -particularly in the matter of getting combat-equipped planes from the factories to the fighting areas. When that had been satisfactorily attended to, he went to sea again, this time commanding Carrier Group 58.4-a component of wizened, brilliant Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58. His group joined the first carrier strikes- after Doolittle-on the Japanese home islands...