Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kharkov action was local in its immediate purpose and effect; it was not. the major Nazi offensive which the world still awaited. Berlin stated the simple fact when a communiqué called the Kharkov advance an action to "straighten the lines...
Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
...straighten things out about "rank-&-filers" on the "ad-less" Stars & Stripes [TIME, April...
...Crimson has been weakest on the bases, going from radical dare-deviling to conservative timidity over night. Partially the result of the inavailability of outdoor practice, Coach Stahl expects to be able to straighten out that kink in the coming weeks...
There was plenty for him to do in his new job. Badly needed was a mastermind to straighten out the tangle and confusion of Lend-Lease red tape and to synchronize U.S. production and purchasing with British and Russian needs. The Beaver knew how to cut red tape. Whether the brilliant, bumptious outspoken millionaire was the right man to handle all the delicate bric-a-brac of human relationships involved was something else again...