Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumors that he was'about to be purged began to circulate. He was warned by friends not to go back. Last week when the purge rumor became fact U.S. friends of amiable, stocky Vladimir Clementis thought that he had returned to Prague because i) he thought he could straighten out his relations with the Russians and 2) he was too proud to admit that he had been wrong in becoming their puppet...
...likes to do anything provided it is mean enough, learns how to get along with high-strung Mrs. Merrill, and gladly forgoes her wages when Mr. Merrill is hit by the Depression. The high point of Debby's pathetic little life comes when she gets a chance to straighten Rebecca Merrill's veil just before her wedding, and happily follows the bride all the way to the altar...
...real trouble with the Russians, the President told Krock, is that they are still suffering from a complex of fear and inferiority where the U.S. is concerned. If a campaign had not been in progress in 1948, he would have sent Chief Justice Vinson to try to straighten out Stalin and the other Russian leaders on this and on our real intentions. Maybe that will be the thing to do some time. But in nothing must we show any sign of weakness, because there is none in our attitude...
...tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...
India's Sir Benegal Rau said the U.N. had better straighten out some rules, otherwise "a government of party A might be recognized by the General Assembly while that of party B would be recognized by the Security Council." Clearly, that would never...