Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk because their legs were so cramped. Dixon's hip refused to straighten out, but even so he forced his crew to march up the beach in military fashion...
...Army medical test, successfully passed, now means immediate induction, with immediate furloughs available for draftees who just have to straighten out their civilian affairs. The Army's speed in grabbing manpower does not please the Navy. Determined to man ships with volunteers, the Navy formerly got quite a few youngsters who had passed the Army test, changed over to the Navy before induction. Although the Navy has had more than 140,000 volunteers since Pearl Harbor, it needs a minimum of 45,000 enlistments monthly. Last week the Navy sent out a press release, thoughtfully reminding draftees that...
...early Monday morning, for instance, the certitude develops among the mill hands that the days of the week are stuck, and it is still Sunday, a sinful day to work. Almost a week passes before Sam's acquaintance, the King (who talks a Yorkshire solid as cheese), helps straighten things...
...word, are now adjusting their traditional programs. This is the result, in part, of a desire to attract more students to those fields and to broaden the analytic powers of those already taking courses in them. Of deeper consequence however, is the realization of the necessity to straighten the lines even of subjects only remotely connected with...
...after school). Miss Fenner rarely sits at her librarian's desk. While children sign out their own books, she tours the bookshelves, listening gravely to criticisms of stories, helping choose books. She also runs a stamp club, a dramatic club (for acting stories), a library club (to help straighten books, stamp cards, etc.), a storytelling hour...