Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlene Dietrich, currently conquering the otherwise unconquerable Fighting French on the Italian front, was returning from a hospital show when she spotted two French officers struggling with an overturned jeep, promptly put her khaki-colored legs to work; helped straighten things...
...argument that we've been having for the past few weeks is that Admiral Halsey has to report to General MacArthur for orders, and that General MacArthur is ranking officer over Admiral Halsey. We would like very much for you to straighten us out on that argument. We do know that one has command of the South Pacific and the other has the Southwest Pacific...
...dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...
...Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
Notable among Wilson's work at WPB have been his trips to aircraft plants to speed production, straighten out the man power mess. Typical Wilson appearances...