Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's most devoted aides, Kenny O'Donnell, who had arranged the Dallas trip to straighten out "a party problem in Texas," was riding in the car behind the President when he heard Oswald's shots. "I saw the third shot hit. It was such a perfect shot-I remember I blessed myself. I was rather convinced that it was a fatal blow." Outside the emergency room, O'Donnell talked with Jackie. "I tried to in some way imply that she might leave and come with us, at least to get her out of that room...
...more immediate project, Rudolph indicated, will be an attempt "to straighten up Brattle Square" by painting crosswalks across the big intersection...
Before coming to any decision, he said, HSA managers will sift through the records of complaints to see "what kind of service will satisfy most of them." As a preliminary move, "we're trying to straighten out our records so we can sift through them," he said...
...three beautiful daughters of Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She is much more celebrated than he is, always appearing on lists of the ten best-dressed or -coiffed or just looking out from a photograph with a coolly amiable glance that makes men instinctively straighten their ties. Because she reads widely and far more than he has time to, he seems to look to her for literary judgments in much the way he depends on men like Jim Aubrey for first opinions about new gumshoes, comedians and hillbillies. The Paleys have been married for 16 years. Each...
...Formerly often called orthodontia-until orthodontists decided to straighten the name of their own specialty to match obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics...