Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answering Calls. Black-browed Bill Draper is one of that group of Wall Streeters-among them Forrestal, Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of them, Draper is no hereditary economic royalist. Born in New York City, the son of a dentist, he went to New York University (Class of '16), got his start in business at the National City Bank, later switched to Dillon, Read & Co., where his boss was Forrestal...
...about time we try to straighten this upside-down world, recognize our own role, and realize that the Soviet Union is like a page ripped from a history of Attila or Machiavelli and inserted into...
Maids are a luxury that the College still offers in spite of rising costs. The Cambridge women who come in to clean have been known even to darn the socks of a student, but others merely straighten out the beds each morning. Student porters will fill in for the maids in a few places this year.This is one of the College's seven upperclassmen Houses (LOWELL) which are located on or near the Charles River. After spending their first year together in the Yard, freshmen will apply in April for one of the seven. Each House provides living quarters...
...assaulted Communist positions in the rain-lashed mountains north of the Hwachon Reservoir and east of the "Iron Triangle." The Reds fell back in some places, fought hand-to-hand in others despite U.N. air, artillery, tank and naval gunfire. U.N. officers described it as a limited offensive "to straighten our lines and to prevent the enemy from observing the positions we currently hold." Another theory: that it was designed to impress Communists at Kaesong with what will come if peace talks fail...
...looked as if Averell Harriman might yet do the incredible and straighten out the Iranian oil mess. He was off to a good start. In twelve days on the job in Teheran, including many hours at Premier Mossadeq's bedside, Special Envoy Harriman got an important concession from the Iranians: they were willing to reopen talks with London about oil nationalization. The terms on which the Iranians would talk were not disclosed, but Harriman felt hopeful enough to transmit the offer to London and recommend an immediate conference...