Word: straighter
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...ahead lies straighter track, open air, solid ground, and your own work. A life...
...leaned too far and could topple at any time in the next decade or two. So the 800-year-old white marble structure, one of Italy's most famous monuments, was closed for nearly 12 years and for $25 million of ingenious engineering work to set it a little straighter. Not, of course, entirely straight--Dio mio!--that would have destroyed its tourist appeal. But straight enough to keep it stable for an estimated 300 more years...
...been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale [who is suing the Boy Scouts to admit openly gay men and boys]. I think if the personal lives of all scoutmasters were scrutinized, we would find that Dale is probably "morally straighter" than most of them. JAMES A. PASCHEN Mequon...
...musicals on Broadway are so often the old ones, but when you leave the theater on such a high, it's hard to complain. Bernadette Peters frees Irving Berlin's Annie Oakley from the iron grip of Ethel Merman in Graciela Daniele's revisionist production. Michael Blakemore plays it straighter with Kate but gives stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie a terrific showcase...
...some point someone told you to, someone with power. But it's also because you can. You get hooked on the discipline - the Big D, as it's known to us in-house cynics - on the idea that you got an order, from the Army, and you're straighter and taller and tougher than the average schmuck back home on the block...