Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrangement between the Key and Managers' Council will probably provide for weekly conferences between manager and Key man to straighten out details of a team's visit to Cambridge. It is currently the job of the Key representative to send out forms to traveling squads and plan their stay so that details are kept to a minimum...
...legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities about certain tenuous "affiliations" of years past, was acceptable to the completion of committee the as a record . . "clarification." Again, to say that we personally received a citation from the California American Legion for our anti-Communist activities rather overstates the case. The citation was given...
...allies; Moscow has of late been making particularly gracious gestures toward the French. He believed the new Soviet regime wanted time to consolidate and improve conditions inside Russia. Sir Winston sat slumped in his chair, head down, glasses at nose's end, seeming to nod only to straighten up when prodded by a word or point that interested him. At last he pushed his glasses back into place, and gave his views of the Soviet...
...study his part and play Holmes rather than a House Dick, they can cure the major ill of the play. To make Sherlock Holmes effective, however, they must dispense with the flashbacks, the muddled staging, and the exaggerations of acting in the minor roles. In the meantime, Ouida must straighten out the story line, which now leaves justice inexplicably triumphant in the last act. Certainly the present state of Sherlock Holmes, with the sole assets of Steward Chaney's sets and the charming, if superfluous Mme. Novotna, will not satisfy Doyle addicts, who have waited since the days of William...
First Game. The Dodgers sent Right-hander Erskine against the Yankees, but he was wild and the Yankees knocked him out of the game in the first inning with four runs (on three walks and two triples). By the fifth inning the Dodgers were beginning to straighten out the fastball pitching of Yankee Allie Reynolds, but old National Leaguer Johnny Sain marched in to replace Reynolds and silence the Dodgers while the Yankees piled up more runs. Score: Yankees, 9; Dodgers...