Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry or crop to protect hung an amendment on the bill exempting his pet. Said Delaware's John Williams: "Everyone will be exempt from this bill but the consumers." Such as it was, the Senate passed the bill (84-3). A House and Senate conference would have to straighten...
Rene Massigli, French Ambassador to London, was called to Paris to see if his superior knowledge of the English language and the British viewpoint could help straighten things out. In Paris, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Harvey's big Rolls-Royce virtually ran a shuttle service between the British embassy and the Quai d'Orsay as Harvey delivered the messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval...
Last week, nonetheless, it looked as though scholars might finally get their chance to straighten out the poetic quirks and biographical kinks in the Dickinson legend. After years of persuasion, Harvard had finally convinced Alfred Leete Hampson, longtime friend of Emily's niece, and heir to Emily's letters and manuscripts, that he should part with them. Manhattan Bibliophile Gilbert Holland Montague had put up "a very substantial sum," turned the collection over to Harvard's Houghton Library for a special Emily Dickinson room...
Students find him a hard taskmaster, but always sympathetic and ready to straighten out the staggering detail that often brakes their progress...
...Kerr's bill was designed to straighten out a confused situation in the Southwest oilfields. After a Supreme Court decision in 1947, some members of the Federal Power Commission thought that FPC had the right to say what natural-gas producers could charge interstate pipeline operators for gas. Still not too sure of its authority, FPC had not yet clamped on price regulation. But so-called "independent" producers* lived in dread of the day when FPC would move in. The Kerr bill would specifically exempt gas producers from such FPC control...