Word: straightener
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...Forces superior, bemedaled, autocratic Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, World War I hero and commander of the Tenth Air Force, whose headquarters are in India. Both feuds were connected, because Bissell is also Stilwell's executive in the Far East. The Army last week was anxiously trying to straighten out the row between these three seasoned soldiers. Airmen hopefully predicted that there would be a shake-up that would leave Chennault in command of a separate China Air Force...
...spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...
...place which to students of finance had the same rare value as an eclipse of the sun has to astronomers. By decree the country changed its monetary system from the complicated, 1,000-unit milreis to the streamlined, decimal-pointed cruzeiro (cross)-worth the same amount. Idea was to straighten out a currency system grown so complicated as to baffle even Brazilians. Examples...
...engaged in a vicious struggle for political control of an already corrupt city. Ladd, his number one trouble-shooter, sees plenty of trouble when Veronica Lake gets Donlevy to give her father political support in return for her smiles and wiles, but it takes him the whole picture to straighten things out. And in the end, with a little help from Veronica, he acts perfectly normal. The guy, who in "This Gun For Hire" didn't even crack a smile, smoulders when she turns on the heat...
...weary man got through with the Washington airport greetings as fast as he decently could. His stop at the Carlton Hotel did not even give him a chance to straighten his tie or give his pants a badly needed hitch. Under orders from the Commander in Chief to hurry, he crammed his bulk into a limousine, lumbered out in front of the Executive Offices and for a moment faced a battery of cameras. Then Wendell Willkie went in to see the President...