Word: straightened
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...history of depression which severe medical problems have exacerbated. In 1996, the singer overdosed on Valium and antidepressants, and collapsed on a bathroom floor in London. When he was found, his legs had been pinned under him for 14 hours, cutting off circulation completely. An initial attempt to straighten them triggered a cardiac arrest, and Linkous was declared clinically dead for two minutes. Although he was revived and numerous operations to save his legs were ultimately successful, recovery has been slow and painful. He was confined to a wheelchair for six months and still wears leg braces...
...second knuckles of your index and middle fingers. By using your middle finger as the fulcrum and placing your index finger slightly towards the butt end of your pen/pencil, force the non-writing end of the pen/pencil against the webbing between your thumb and index finger. Maintaining this pressure, straighten your fingers slightly, whipping the non-writing end around in a clockwise fashion. Now you can twirl anything...
Walker's grooming products, she insisted, did not "straighten" hair--even then, a politically controversial process--but she also sold a "hot comb," which did in fact straighten kinky hair, consciously tapping into a racial aesthetic that favored Caucasian features over "African" physical characteristics. Such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson and Michael Jackson would become cases in point. Walker's products, aided by before-and-after ads that rivaled anything Madison Avenue would invent, made their way into virtually every black home...
...hardly a revelation that busy prostitutes wind up pregnant from time to time. Some even find that impending motherhood is the wake-up call that spurs them to straighten out their lives. But not Moody, who treated her pregnancies as little more than temporary inconveniences. Even with a swollen belly that turned her streetwise walk into a waddle, Moody could attract customers. "Some men are into pregnant women," she notes dispassionately. Her second baby, Cartez, was born on July 2 nine years ago, and Vanessa was back on the street on the 4th, while her distraught mother and sister Debbie...
...this new challenge with abandon, even going as far as ripping the limbs from an innocent doll while belting out the lyrics to the song "Little Girls": "Little cheeks, little teeth/Everything around me is little/If I wring little necks/Surely I will get an acquittal...Some night I'll straighten their curls/ Send a flood, send the flu/Anything that, you can do, to little girls...