Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while, it looked as if Kozlov, Christian Herter and Nixon were going to have a small summit meeting right there on the Blair House rug. "I want to straighten out one matter you discussed at the White House this morning," said Secretary Herter. The Russian had told the President that the U.S. had forced the Soviet Union to pay "in gold" for American relief sent to starving Russians in 1921-23. "I was in Russia in 1922," said Herter, who was Herbert Hoover's assistant at the time, "and I went down the Volga. The money which the Congress...
Pure Rascality. After that, Demara promised himself to straighten out and make a new man of himself: Demara. But somehow it seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them...
...Teamsters, threatened anarchy if the Kennedy-Ervin bill is made law. Cried Hoffa to a regional Teamsters' convention: "If such a law is passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers once and for all." Hoffa's outrageous threat brought outraged reactions in the press and on Capitol Hill. Taken aback for once, Hoffa loudly denied that he had ever made such a statement. But no one was so stupid as to believe his denial...
...call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers for once...
Kids Are Kinder. There was time out for a long hospital siege, to straighten out the contractures in Anne's one knee. She went home able to walk, but only with a device so clumsy that she soon discarded it. When she was in high school, her left leg was amputated below the knee. Then, with artificial legs and crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still...