Word: straightening
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Meanwhile, Bill glowered and complained that he had always taken the rap for the diabolical George. First it was petty theft. Next it was assault, then murder. Bill swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert...
...first unpalatable taste of politics. National finances were in chaos after 20 changes of government in five years. Salazar was invited to come to Lisbon to straighten them out. He took a look at the parliamentary confusion and, in deep disgust, demanded a free hand with the Treasury. Refused, he caught the next train back to the sedge-lined banks of the Mondego. He expressed his contempt for Lisbon's attempts at democracy and said that "one of the greatest mistakes of the 19th Century (which created the 'citizen'-an individual isolated from the family, the class...
Ebbing sales gave circulation veterans no alarm. The country's 105,000 newsstands were crowded beyond reason anyway, and survival of the fittest might straighten things out by fall. That would clear the decks for a more exciting war: the coming fight for public favor between the fittest...
When the operators countered with changes that proposed to wipe out all the gains in working conditions that the brotherhoods had made in 50 years of bargaining, the factfinders threw in the sponge. Under the strike settlement, another year would be taken to straighten them...
...took time and patience to knit the skein of British colonial expansion into a tight empire, but the weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor Government tried to straighten the threads, its fingers caught in the old, hard knots. Last week autocratic sultans and old-line Tories alike were denouncing the British Government for high-handed imperialism in Malaya. British efforts to increase Malayan self-government had resulted in a terrible tangle...