Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the Germans dove on the bombers with jets open. "They would straighten out," said one U.S. pilot, "and strafe from underneath. One did this trick, and let a rocket go into a Fort of our formation. The Fort disappeared...
...organization was not autonomous, and Miss Mac herself had no command as such; as director of the WAVES she merely stood in the background, giving advice and, like a wise spinster aunt, smoothing things out. Her WAVES were a womanly infiltration into certain spots where they could pick up, straighten out and perform some chores even better than...
...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
...Whistler (yes, old straighten up and Stan Wright) got a formal hands off note recently from an irate Boston mother. In spite of Stan's letter enclosing his distinction marks and quartile rating, it seems that her 14-year-old daughter is still too young for his attentions. But Stan never says die. He's currently working on that "schoolboy" approach...
...Roosevelt Administration enters its fourth term this week, Hopkins is, more than ever, the President's right arm. But he may miss the cozy, back-porch Term IV inauguration. Washington reports last week had him going to London, to straighten out in advance with Winston Churchill the agenda for the upcoming Big Three meeting...