Word: straightening
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...clock at night, had seldom had time or inclination at day's end for anything but crawling into bed in the quiet squad rooms (All right, there'll be no skylarkin' in barracks.). First they had learned to march, how to shoot out their feet and straighten their knees, not plod along like civilians. And they had learned that a soldier marches with his head up (Hey, you, eyes off the deck.), is alert in obeying commands (Get going, you Camp Fire Girls.). They had been given a quick splash into military courtesy (Salute, you, this...
With vest pocket Romeo Roland Young furthering the careers of a lot of hardworking blondes--some further than others--and doing it on the budget of a wife so tight that she sends paper napkins out to be dry cleaned, it takes Anna Neagle to straighten everything out. While combing mistresses out of her Uncle Bluebeard's whiskers, Miss Neagle sings, dances, and acts as well as ever. The word is "Yes" for "No, No, Nanette...
Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said...
...expressed the sincere hope that the United States will be friendly to Russia and that he can help to straighten out all the "misrepresentations of Russia in this country...
Although the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, by which Mexico, Canada, Cuba and the U. S. hope to unsnarl the untidy tangle of wave lengths in this continent, will probably not go into effect until late this year, Mexico is trying to straighten out its aerial relations with the U. S. Soon to go into effect is a U. S.-Mexican agreement to exchange four clear channels from Mexico for four clear channels from the U. S. Benefited by this agreement will be 90,000 set owners in the Federal District, more than half of the owners elsewhere in Mexico...