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Word: straightenings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acquisition of the site will also help straighten out several roads that had to be detoured around it. Even so, the Potsdam station is evidently not going to yield to liberation without a struggle. On the instructions of worried West Berlin officials, workmen last week were stringing lines of barbed wire along its boundaries. There were fears that curious West Berliners, poking around in the ruins, might be crushed by the crumbling walls of the old Haus Vaterland dance hall, which stood near the station ruins, or blown up by unexploded bombs and artillery shells left there since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: No Man's Land | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems. Miss Conlon replied: "Show these kids that you're going to stand for no monkey business, and they're going to straighten up and fly right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Reverse Fulbright | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...Afro coiffure are splitting hairs. Teasing and picking any hair is damaging, said Dr. Algie C. Brown of Atlanta; it causes the shafts to fracture and encourages infections. The hair of blacks is especially vulnerable if it has previously been treated with chemicals or hot combs to straighten it. To Dermatologist Brown the condition is trichorrhexis nodosa; to the Afro cultivator, this means that he is losing his hair. Brown's prescription: a natural, unteased Afro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 3, 1972 | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...that jam. The Commissioner called off the Series and nobody won. Of course the world was pretty messed up back then, so it didn't really matter. Hitler had just gone into Poland, and everyone knew that we would have to go over there to straighten things...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: The Papal Bull | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...starting line-up, which was particularly uncertain, this spring, is beginning to straighten out. "We'll be strong up the middle," said Park, "at catcher, pitcher, shortstop, second base, and center...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Nine Take 11, Lose only 1 in Florida | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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