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Word: straightening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind dogmatic and forceful. To Liu, the ideal Communist "bears the sorrows of the world now for the sake of later happiness; he toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten up and carry on; he has the greatest determination and a stature that riches cannot corrupt, poverty cannot change and terror cannot surmount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RED CHINA'S NO. 2 MAN | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...this point the administration, sensing the immanence of an awkward and totally absurd feud, established the special committee to straighten out the situation and to set up a formal delineation of undefined matters concerning radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall-Out Fall Out | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...parts along, and the company had to return to manual equipment to meet production schedules. A Los Angeles wholesale drug company automated the ordering and billing for its warehouse. But hardly had the warehouse started to operate when it had to shut down for nearly two months to straighten out its affairs after the computer had reduced the paper work to chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMATION: It Won't Help Everybody | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Dulles said Thursday he wanted to straighten out confusion compounded--what he called "an exaggerated idea of a shift of position on our part...misinterpreting the misinterpretation...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Denies China Policy Shift; UAW Workers Settle GM Dispute | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

Even a Madison Avenue hotshot could not hope to straighten out the public relations mess in which the HSA became entangled. Thus, HSA's main problem for this second year, and perhaps for some years to come, will be making friends among the student members. Officers of the corporation are now walking a tight-rope; without some public approbation, the member concessionaires cannot make an adequate profit...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The HSA: Older, Wiser--and Bigger | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

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