Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN TIME'S new Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Philip Payne came to the U.S. recently to straighten out personal affairs and pick up his wife and three children, his lifelong friend. Associate Editor William Forbis, substituted for him in Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments...
...straighten up when you bend...
...least twenty times during the evening.) Basically, the plot resembles the eternal loves triangle. Cocteau's imagination is such, however, that in this case the such, however, that in this case the triangle turns out to be a pentagon, and at one point the principals even try to straighten things out by introducing another, imaginary person as a sixth vertex...
...Keep this woman off the air! Britain is a Christian country." So wrote the London Daily Sketch when Psychologist Margaret Knight advised parents over BBC to straighten out their children on the "myths" of Christianity (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) In the current weekly Commonweal, British Correspondent Michael P. Fogarty, a Roman Catholic, argues that Mrs. Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive...
...annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...