Word: straightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 90% of the 1,200,000 Europeans who once tended Algeria's vineyards and ran its businesses have fled (along with some 200,000 job-seeking Moslems), but officials now are anxious to lure back teachers, technicians and administrators to help straighten out the mess...
...Heng) Ho, 62. Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals and helping clients' children choose the proper Western university from a Hang Seng-published catalogue...
Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their beginnings quicken the webbed roots of memory. Recollection exfoliates until at last, over the distance, the leaves touch...
...suffering from hallucinations as she speaks into Charles' left ear, her husband's good ear, and tries to straighten his tie. Suddenly she collapses onto the grandfather's bed. The story ends...