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Word: straightened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write, and one night he flobs off to somebody else's pad. She flips but good, and goes ankling down the main drag with nothing on but her epidermis. In the end, though, she announces that she is pregnant, and he promises to marry her, get a job, straighten up and fly right back to bourgeois respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...workers' movement" and "the forward thrust of Soviet science." Business Man fights back with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day, follows up with everything from recovered space monkeys to the thinking man's filter. Momentarily victorious, he says: "Come back next week to see how I straighten out that troubled island of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Satire in Chicago | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

With precisely the same tools and materials he used to straighten plowshares and make fire irons for the local peasants, Martí had hammered out of glowing iron Christ in glory upon the cross, the cross concave, as if to concentrate its radiance upon the worshiper, flames issuing from the nailheads in the hands and feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIDDEN MASTERPIECES:: HIDDEN MASTERPIECES: The Monastery of Poblet | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sailor Sterling Hayden, home from the South Seas to straighten out his own marital tangle, stars in Ethan Frame, Edith Wharton's story of marital and extramarital troubles in 19th century New England. Costars: Julie Harris and Clarice Blackburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Good evening, and welcome to another T.V.-side chat. I'm sure all of you are concerned with the un-American activities in our newest state. I assure you that my staff of machines has studied the matter closely and is convinced that a little Good Will can straighten out the Commonwealth of Cuba...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Better Things for Better Living | 1/6/1960 | See Source »

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