Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the operators countered with changes that proposed to wipe out all the gains in working conditions that the brotherhoods had made in 50 years of bargaining, the factfinders threw in the sponge. Under the strike settlement, another year would be taken to straighten them...
...took time and patience to knit the skein of British colonial expansion into a tight empire, but the weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor Government tried to straighten the threads, its fingers caught in the old, hard knots. Last week autocratic sultans and old-line Tories alike were denouncing the British Government for high-handed imperialism in Malaya. British efforts to increase Malayan self-government had resulted in a terrible tangle...
...problem is obvious; these statistics mean that close to half of the married veterans at the University will be forced into quarters which cannot be considered adequate, and their ability to study efficiently must suffer as a result. At the same time, all expectations that the housing squeeze would straighten itself out with time, or be solved by governmental conjure, have faded with the emasculation of the Wyatt housing program and the recent prediction of local constructors that, barring miracles, the shortage will last for the next five years. Only temporary housing, erected and installed by the University, will prevent...
That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
Although most comments on MMP come from you, we also hear occasionally from our subjects. Hollywood's Errol Flynn. who has some kind of affinity for the People section, is forever writing in to "straighten" us out on this or that technicality of his misadventures. Not long ago Clark Gable's first wife, Josephine Dillon, communicated her displeasure at another magazine's description of her as "many years his [Gable's] senior.'' She thought we ought to know that she is only "three'' years older than Gable, who is "swiftly approaching fifty...