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Word: straightened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Defeat of an Air Force | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Mac | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 29, 1945 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/26/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Agent | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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