Word: straighten
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...that the attack has shown some spark, perhaps the Crimson's overworked defense can straighten itself out. The defense has not been able to put four good periods together and has undergone frequent lapses...
...Harvard Biologist George Wald, 59, shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...
However, Crimson Coach Bruce Munro has said that he has been working the team hard to straighten out a lot of the mistakes it made against Penn...
...annual convention of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association could have used some of their own tranquilizers after the FDA's new boss, Dr. James Goddard, got up to speak. He accused the industry's executives of slovenliness, deception and dishonesty-and warned them that they had better straighten up or else face much stricter controls...
...fact that Pennel is able to compete at all is amazing. His back has hurt him ever since he was a boy, vaulting over garbage cans with a pipe from a TV antenna. "Sometimes it was so bad that he could not straighten up in the morning," remembers his mother, who tried to help with massages. Doctors at first thought he had just a muscular ailment, so Pennel ignored the pain, went on to set an outdoor record...