Word: straightening
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...Taunted Republican Assemblyman George Ingalls: "All this is but a maneuvering of puppets. A little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens. A little while later another little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens, so he goes back in. Why don't you straighten out your political strings so some little man can come out and blow his horn and stay here...
POOR RICHARD does not register as many laughs as Mary, Mary, but Jean Kerr again produces the wit that is instant wisdom. Alan Bates plays the kind of mixed-up wanderer that women yearn to straighten out and anchor...
...Kennedy's most devoted aides, Kenny O'Donnell, who had arranged the Dallas trip to straighten out "a party problem in Texas," was riding in the car behind the President when he heard Oswald's shots. "I saw the third shot hit. It was such a perfect shot-I remember I blessed myself. I was rather convinced that it was a fatal blow." Outside the emergency room, O'Donnell talked with Jackie. "I tried to in some way imply that she might leave and come with us, at least to get her out of that room...
...more immediate project, Rudolph indicated, will be an attempt "to straighten up Brattle Square" by painting crosswalks across the big intersection...
Before coming to any decision, he said, HSA managers will sift through the records of complaints to see "what kind of service will satisfy most of them." As a preliminary move, "we're trying to straighten out our records so we can sift through them," he said...