Word: straightenings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bater flew out the door with a cheery "Goodbye, Gentlemen." Others followed, including Schelling, who instructed Neustadt to take care of the bill, saying they would straighten out the finances Monday. Yarmolinsky left for the church...
...Plas Penrhyn, his comfortable country house in northern Wales, he worked until the very end-a sparrow of a man, 97 years old and still trying to straighten out the world. A statement went off to Cairo on the Middle East crisis; letters and papers were prepared on Viet Nam and the plight of political prisoners. Then, after a whisky, he retired with a touch of flu to his bedroom overlooking Tremadoc Bay. Not long afterward, the long, passionate life of Bertrand Russell came...
...Just one point to straighten the record in the cover story on Ralph Nader's crusade for consumers: Each year about 100,000 persons are injured when they walk through ordinary glass, not safety glass...