Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valuable than his theology. In his study, filled with 700 books (there are 1,000 more in the adjoining bathroom), he sees an average of eight parishioners a day who come with problems. He keeps a fresh handkerchief in his desk drawer for those who cry. If he cannot straighten out a case, he recommends a psychiatrist...
...forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...
...Swing your hands loosely between the knees and let your body slump downward until the backs of your hands touch the floor. Raise hips. Straighten back. Then your head. Repeat three times...
...market the other day and a, lot of women were complaining about the OPA and all its rationing rules, and finally the proprietor said: 'Well, I agree with you, but this fellow Baruch has been appointed to a job in Washington and he'll straighten everything...
...Chester Davis moved in to straighten out the mess, his chief worries were: 1) raise the nation's food production 8% over last year's record levels; 2) finesse farm-bloc tricks calculated to wreck the Administration's anti-inflation fight...