Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tyler jumps wildly off the water wagon. He faces the rap, crying: "We can't sell out on the people, but the trouble is that me, I'm just as much the people as you are or any other son of a bitch. If we want to straighten the people out we've got to start with number one, not that big wind. . . . You know what I mean. I got to straighten myself out first, see. . . . Thinking hurts...
...friends of the graduating class from 1400 to 1600 on Monday, March 1st. This is a good place to park the folks while you are being given clearance from the post; it will take most of the afternoon and part of the evening to get all bills paid and straighten out travel, sign but in the regular register book...
...Forces superior, bemedaled, autocratic Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, World War I hero and commander of the Tenth Air Force, whose headquarters are in India. Both feuds were connected, because Bissell is also Stilwell's executive in the Far East. The Army last week was anxiously trying to straighten out the row between these three seasoned soldiers. Airmen hopefully predicted that there would be a shake-up that would leave Chennault in command of a separate China Air Force...
...spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...
...place which to students of finance had the same rare value as an eclipse of the sun has to astronomers. By decree the country changed its monetary system from the complicated, 1,000-unit milreis to the streamlined, decimal-pointed cruzeiro (cross)-worth the same amount. Idea was to straighten out a currency system grown so complicated as to baffle even Brazilians. Examples...