Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference was called to straighten out kinks in the Inter-American system, to formalize acts taken at five special conferences*held in the war years since the last plenary meeting at Lima in 1938. Major item in the agenda: a new Organic Pact of the Americas, which would give the Pan American Union more power, place political and military matters under its wing...
Almost overnight, the namby-pamby Tacoma Times had turned into a crusading newspaper (TIME, Feb. 16). Many Tacomans, unused to forthright journalism, were confused by the new style. In an editorial, Editor William A. Townes tried to straighten them...
...tailored William Pawley dropped in on Secretary Marshall. Bluntly, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil told his boss that things were going badly in Latin America. The latinos were sore because they felt that the U.S. was neglecting them in favor of Europe, and something ought to be done to straighten things out before next month's Pan American Conference in Bogot...
...wish I could find a way of doing something to straighten out this world. I think if we all tried we could. Here's one who will at any rate. George A. Furness...
...would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...