Word: straighter
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...Kumhwa, which had seemed threatened under the first impetus of enemy attack, were safe. A new U.N. first line was established at the base of the Kumsong salient. But the salient itself was gone. At the cost of thousands of lives, the proposed armistice line was a little straighter-in the Communists' favor...
When he registered for his final year, the classmate stood a little straighter and his clothes were neater. He was a senior, and he commanded the respect of the undergraduates. There were little men from the Class of 1931 registering, and when later that year the CRIMSON carried news about the entering Class of 1932 the senior shrugged his shoulders and told his roommate, "Makes you feel old, doesn...
...traditionally straight, string-beanish outline is growing straighter. Whether the impulse originated along New York's Madison Avnue, London's Saville Row, or Cambridge's Mount Auburn Street, is of little consequence. The important thing is that male styles are gradually turning back to Edward VII for a model...
...Cannot Allow." The Stettinius excuse for F.D.R.'s tragic weakness on the Polish issue is that the Russians were already in Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...
...bulldog-jawed, 5 ft. 10½ in. Ben Jones walks with short, mincing steps and a hint of a limp (from a football injury). But he sits a horse straighter than most men half his age. Outside Barn 15 at Churchill Downs last week, atop his stable pony, Ben hardly looked like the boss of the most efficiently run stable in U.S. racing history. There are no fancy airs about Ben Jones, from Parnell...