Word: straightener
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...million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form of grain for Poland and Russia. While this business has helped to pare Western crop surpluses, it has the disadvantage of being a one-shot affair that will quickly end if and when the Communists straighten out their farm mess. Western businessmen are thus looking yearningly toward the more stable business of exporting hard goods to the Communist countries...
...lavished huge sums on industrialization and neglected the vital farm sector, created a vastly inefficient bureaucracy to produce full employment at the expense of the state treasury, and filled his own and his henchmen's pockets with graft. Successive governments have been trying to unscramble the mess and straighten out the Peronistas ever since...
...never thought of singing until one night, at the insistence of a club manager, he reluctantly intoned Sweet Lorraine to placate a free-spending drunk bellowing requests from the bar. In 1943 he recorded his first vocal number, Straighten Up and Fly Right, which flew right up the bestseller charts. He followed in 1946 with The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . ."), which became an alltime Yule classic...
...Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...into the joint showed that the main trouble was on the inside. The medial meniscus, one of the two pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other...