Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, every foresighted bowling alley offers free lessons for children. In today's family-styled alley, parents no longer worry about evil companions, and the only childhood trauma is the gutter ball and a bad hook. And chances are that Mommy can straighten out these problems faster than Daddy...
...Administration is opposed to sending G.I.s to fight in the Vietnamese jungle (as is the Vietnamese government), nor does the U.S. have enough trained guerrilla fighters to do the job. In any case, reported Taylor, South Viet Nam needs six months of hard work just to straighten out the country before the U.S. should even seriously consider the question of sending in its own troops in force...
Presumably to show that it meant business, the military then ordered all leading politicians to straighten matters out expeditiously at a meeting in the presidential palace in Ankara; when Peasant-and-Nation Party Leader Osman Bolukbasi failed to show up, an armed party was sent to fetch...
...competition until the '20s, merged with its major rival (Auto Strop) in 1931. But mismanagement and a stock scandal during the '30s sent Gillette's sales tumbling, forcing the company in 1938 to hire Joseph P. Spang Jr. away from meat-packing Swift & Co. to straighten Gillette...
Does Arab Fight Arab? Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser took to Cairo radio to denounce the revolt. In somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after...