Word: straightening
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This is a tricky business. The articles explore ways to straighten or subtly change the width of an African-American patient's nose while still allowing for a slight flaring of the nostrils. They explain how Asian eyes, which tend to lift slightly higher in the corner than do Caucasian eyes, often look tired or old beyond their years when that corner drops down with time. These patients want to look younger, but they aren't interested in having their ethnicity erased with a standard eye lift...
...There are a number of possible reasons why the administration is suddenly concerned to straighten out its story on the implied connection between Saddam and 9/11. It may be simply that administration officials were being asked the question by journalists following the second anniversary of the attacks, and they were simply repeating their position for the record. But there was clearly some concern to back away even from the position articulated by Cheney, who appeared to suggest that it was still an open question. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz had, in remarks on this year's 9/11 anniversary, reemphasized...
...Harvard’s success will lie in how well it manages to address its biggest weakness in five days of practice. And if the team does straighten out its start, it can book a plane ticket to Detroit...
...We’re definitely prepared for the Ivies,” Hynes said. “We just have to keep our focus and practice the little things.” “If we can straighten out a few things between now and the Ivies, we should be serious contenders to win,” Ryan said...
...down at one of the tables and munched away on our borekas. Galit asked about my ethnicity and then told me stories of Indian men she encountered in her youth in London. “When I straighten my hair, everyone thinks I am Indian. They all thought that I was an Indian girl.” I laughed and wondered whether the reverse would work, if I could pass off as a Sephardic...