Word: straightener
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...seemed too short for a hominid, but the animal had an all important human characteristic: unlike any species of primate known to have come before, this creature walked fully upright. How did the researchers know? The knee joint was built in such a way that the animal could fully straighten its legs. That would have freed it from the inefficient, bowlegged stride that keeps today's chimps and gorillas from extended periods of two-legged walking. Presuming that this diminutive hominid was a female, Johanson named her Lucy. (While he was examining the first fossils in his tent, the Beatles...
White House denials fail to straighten the tax snarl...
From the beginning it was widely understood that humanitarian aid was not going to resolve a war of such ethnic-based savagery as Bosnia's. But aid was deemed sufficient to straighten out Somalia, where the fighting was considered to be the result of hardship. Yet as both cases demonstrate, in the continued absence of concerted political and military initiatives for peace, humanitarian-aid workers are losing the war against misery. The West will pay a high price for that defeat in a loss of credibility, loss of capacity for effective action, loss of the right to call itself civilized...
...things get out of hand, junior Bryan Lonsinger (1-3-4) is there to help straighten them out--his consistent hard hitting has shown league clubs that the Crimson can do more things than simply skate rings around them. You win with defense, and so far Harvard has done so on a regular basis...
...recommended that Santa straighten out his leg, letting the youngster sit upon it as he brings it back. Practice this. It is known as the Santa leg lift...