Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Words of Advice. Mike's academy looks much like an ordinary gym, with boxing, judo and karate lessons, plus hockey and football games usually going on. What is unusual is that so many fathers take lessons along with their sons. Mike himself is always on hand, seeking to straighten out the father who is too competitive with his son, too demanding, or even too shy. He constantly offers words of praise or advice to the kids. "Control, control," he says. "Think what you're doing! If you're the boss of you, you can become the boss...
...amalgam of drive and IQ earned her another scholarship?to Wellesley. The gangly figure ungangled and the crooked teeth began to straighten. The boys started turning around when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders...
...never does straighten out, but, luckily, there is always the girl-next-door waiting for him at home. She is Holly Woodlawn, an inveterate collector of garbage and solicitor of the affections of young boys. Miss Woodlawn (who is actually a transvestite) cares deeply about Joe and passionately wants him to kick heroin, if only so he will be of use to her in bed. She tries to cheer him up, she pleads with him, she screeches...
...guys were really nervous tonight." said junior forward Brian Newmark, who came off the bench to give Harvard needed poise and inside strength. "We didn't play consistently, partly because there wasn't much direction on the floor. But that should straighten out as the season progresses...
...suicidal female pop singer find happiness in the arms of a Roman Catholic priest? Sophia Loren finds out. So does the padre assigned to straighten out Sophia, Marcello Mastroianni, who eventually discovers that he needs some straightening out himself. It all happens in the new movie The Priest's Wife, which Producer Carlo Ponti decided to make without counting on any plugs from the Vatican's Osservatore Romano...