Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...
...Does It Work? How does a psychiatrist straighten out the conflicts? Freud, after finding hypnotism inadequate, devised the most sneered-at tool in all psychiatry: the couch. The couch is supposed to make the patient relax. The analyst places his chair at the head of the couch, where he is unseen by the patient. The idea is to get the patient to put all his thoughts and feelings into words. Such "free association" is the essence of psychoanalysis...
...bill on time. It doesn't matter if the bill get lost in the mail, or if you broke your leg in your rush to get to the bank. If it's late, you're fined. Last year I was fined, and I went over to Lehman Hall to straighten it all out. The fellow in front of me was doing the same thing, and he had what I thought was an excellent reason for paying late, but all the secretary said was "I'm sorry, but it's by vote of the Corporation." She said it very politely, about...
...Orthodontists straighten crooked teeth; ortho-psychiatrists try to straighten warped minds, specialize in children's behavior problems...
...tried to get his competitors into a joint public-relations campaign to straighten out such misconceptions, but they refused. So five years ago he started his one-man campaign. In newspaper ads, he plugged the theme that "America's Fifth Freedom Is Free Enterprise," with cartoons and folksy parables discussing profits and wage rate-production relationships. Taylor tried the same trick with his annual reports, now thinks that in television he has found the best method...