Word: straighten
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Priorities. The bills marked by the majority leadership as of top importance were all designed to straighten out the economic and social disorders in the nation...
...parachute. Incredibly, he picks himself up uninjured except for a peculiar crack on the head that makes him imagine he is a fugitive from heaven. Throughout the film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven that wants to straighten out its ledgers by hauling him in. In the big, final scenes, he alternately lies on an operating table and stands before heaven's stern court of justice. Cast and audience are at last persuaded, of course, that Young Love must live, since it is the all-important thing...
Best small band: the King Cole Trio, which nine years ago was playing California cocktail bars for $25 a week apiece. Now, largely because of the casual "singing of Nat (King) Cole, son of a Negro Baptist minister, the trio earns $5,000 a week, for such songs as Straighten Up and Fly Right ("Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top") and Get Your Kicks on Route...
...Cockeyed Miracle, Ghost Frank Morgan, 56, and his late father, thirtyish Keenan Wynn, who obviously died at an early age, wander raffishly through a romantic farce. Their problem: to straighten out a few domestic-financial tangles which were left unsolved when Mr. Morgan was struck down by a heart attack. The movie is inoffensive fooling, but talented Comics Morgan and Wynn have reason to accuse their employers of unkind and inhuman treatment...
About all the public could do was lie down on the floor too. A faltering WSB got ready to meet again this week, figure out some way to get Johnny back on his ship and straighten out this latest venture in Government control. No one had any solution to this strike against the Government but to give in to Johnny...