Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Replacing dressing-for-success with dressing-for-sex is no leap forward. Men don't wear tight pants to get a promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...
...Engineers started off the 1993-94 campaign playing very inconsistent hockey (6-5 in their first 11 games), but they then went on a nine-game unbeaten streak to straighten things...
...seemed too short for a hominid, but the animal had an all important human characteristic: unlike any species of primate known to have come before, this creature walked fully upright. How did the researchers know? The knee joint was built in such a way that the animal could fully straighten its legs. That would have freed it from the inefficient, bowlegged stride that keeps today's chimps and gorillas from extended periods of two-legged walking. Presuming that this diminutive hominid was a female, Johanson named her Lucy. (While he was examining the first fossils in his tent, the Beatles...
White House denials fail to straighten the tax snarl...
From the beginning it was widely understood that humanitarian aid was not going to resolve a war of such ethnic-based savagery as Bosnia's. But aid was deemed sufficient to straighten out Somalia, where the fighting was considered to be the result of hardship. Yet as both cases demonstrate, in the continued absence of concerted political and military initiatives for peace, humanitarian-aid workers are losing the war against misery. The West will pay a high price for that defeat in a loss of credibility, loss of capacity for effective action, loss of the right to call itself civilized...