Word: straightening
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...course, the battle lines in the region have changed considerably since John Paul wagged his finger at Nicaraguan priest and Sandinista government minister Ernesto Cardenal on a trip to Managua in 1983, warning him to "straighten out the situation in your church." Catholics in Latin America continue to fight for social justice, and disagreements persist about just how and if welfare policy and religious piety should cohabitate. But after the specter of Marxism faded and John Paul proved to be a great champion of the poor, new alliances have formed. Liberation theologians still say and write things that...
...more interested in weighty ideas than personalities and clearly finds it puzzling that anyone should expect the softer reaches of his character to yield clues to his political landscape. He's analytical but not self-aware, sometimes so absorbed in big, important musings that he fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large hand at unfamiliar guests and deploying a lame icebreaker...
...fashion houses, culturally-black forms of expression have failed to share an equal space with the dictates of mainstream conservative dress. Black hair style has been at the forefront of this tension. While the most accomplished politician may don a strikingly conservative suit, the decision to lock, braid, or straighten hair heightens awareness of blackness, eliciting a variety of reactions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is praised for her chic designer wardrobe and swift leadership style, but public perception would certainly have been different had her hair not been straightened and instead worn in an afro...
...your New Year's resolution was to straighten up, you still have time to reconsider. Your time, energy and money might be better spent on something else...
...Watching the premature and apparently unself-conscious aging of the participants, I wonder if, in the fifth or sixth year of each cycle, they say to themselves, "Time to get a rinse, lose a stone or two, pull my marriage together and straighten out my kids." But that may be the bias of an American, relying on the superficial, the lure of eternal adolescence, more than your average Brit...