Word: straightener
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...leave had lasted 22 years, six months, 13 days. When he had finished his furlough in May 1919, he decided to stay home because he felt emotionally upset. Later, feeling better, he went back to the fort; his outfit had disappeared. In 1932, when he tried to straighten things out through the War Department, the Department coldly advised him that he was classified as a deserter, but "didn't seem to want to do anything." When he checked into Fort McPherson again last week, he posed the Army quite a problem, which at week's end was still...
...surrealist picture of arms, legs, and formless sweat-shirts which yesterday was Harvard Varsity wrestling will this afternoon straighten itself out into some semblance of a grappling squad when Coach Chief Boston holds his pre-season try-outs...
...second is by way of explanation. The combination in the Crimson of October 23 made me appear to be the worst kind of a hypocrite, and to straighten that out. I would like to say that there was no support from me of the editorial in The Dartmouth of October 21. As perhaps is the case in your paper, the editor-in-chief is the sole judge on editorial policy, where there is a conflict. As it happened, the editorial of October 21 was one with which I did not agree...
Motorman Ford, who is already looking beyond the horizons of World War II, remarked philosophically: "It just takes time to straighten these things out." What he said to himself was nobody's business...
President Lowell was finally called upon to straighten out the conflict, which he decided by separating the two groups. Since then the Glee Club has concentrated almost entirely on good music...