Word: straightener
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...later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week, eight Presidents later, Librarian Emeritus Putnam at 85 still showed up every day at the office, though first Archibald MacLeish (in 1939) and then Evans (in 1945) had taken over the main...
...Piazza's mood was bitter toward everything official in Italy. Told that the Italian Government would straighten out matters "tomorrow," the demonstrators cried: "Why not today? Why must we always wait for a tomorrow...
Three years ago Ferdinand Henry John ("Fritzie") Zivic decided to have a doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...
...floating harbors, each the size of Dover. The 150 huge concrete caissons and 60 blunt-nosed ships (which formed the breakwater) were to be anchored off the Normandy beaches. But the problem of towing them across got so snarled up that Ed Moran was finally called in to straighten it out, was put in charge of the whole operation...
...straighten his legs, he can walk," said Dr. Deaver. "One good muscle in his leg is all we need; we can work with that. The average person doesn't use more than 10% of his capacity. There's a great reserve to be tapped...