Word: straightener
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...which the case would be presented. Merola wanted to broach two theories of what the jurors could consider to be larceny; Collins allowed them to weigh only one. Says a retired Manhattan judge who followed the trial: "It is pretty embarrassing for the prosecutor to have the judge straighten out for him the indictment and the legal theory behind it." The sensation of what was primarily a dozy trial came just after the jury began deliberating. One juror apparently suffered an attack of panic; she locked herself in a bathroom chanting, "The Lord is my shepherd." Judge Collins rejected appeals...
...plane, strangely, was a French Mirage. We were doing a cool Mach 2 over the Atlantic before I had time to straighten things out. "What the hell is an American arms dealer doing selling French aircraft...
AFTER SEEING Blind Date, I finally understood that Bruce Willis' irresistable charm comes from his cosmic ordinariness: he seems like just an average guy trying to get from A to B. Women want to straighten out his ever-crooked tie, men want to share a few rounds of beer with him, and the fact that Willis is simply not an average guy makes him no less appealing...
...paper on the ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right ear, as if throwing a fastball. The spear sails up, too high, and at the apex, points straight skyward, and then collapses in the air, subsiding downward on its butt, ignominiously, like...
...space-age alliances could help the company pass its competition. Indeed, none of GM's rivals have taken the giant's poor third-quarter performance as a cue to throttle back. "It's a fluke," says Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. "I know GM, and I'm sure they'll straighten it out as quickly as they know...