Word: unkinking
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...psychiatrists are traditionally prone to behavioral quirks of their own. In a transcontinental airplane one day recently, a broadcasting executive was just settling down to his postprandial cigar when an attractive lady asked him to put it out. He recognized her as Dr. Joyce Brothers, whose cool, blonde analyses unkink snarled psyches on TV and in the newspapers, and hastened to extinguish the cheroot. But the aroma apparently lingered on and Psychologist Brothers came back. "I'll vomit in your lap if you don't put out that cigar," said Dr. Brothers. "You're asking...
...their neighborhoods, finance small businesses, pressure for school improvements and get police action to chase out the "white hunters," white men who crash the ghetto in search of black prostitutes. There is a trend among Negro coeds and career girls to wear their hair "natural" instead of attempting to unkink it by "conking"-rinsing it with lye and binding it with handkerchiefs. Yet for every Negro who flaunts his identity, a hundred try to camouflage it. Advertisements in the Negro magazines still hymn Nadinola skin bleach: "Lightens and brightens skin...
...Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
Service Forces, he soon became its prize troubleshooter. Example: when the Army's supply lines kinked at Cherbourg, Clay crossed the Atlantic to unkink them. In one day he doubled the supplies shipped to the front, quintupled them before he left. In the production "crisis" last December, the White House moved General Clay into Jimmy Byrnes's office, gave him vast, if vague, powers to make sure that the armed forces get what they want...
This mood would gradually unkink itself from such savagery; the U.S. Army & Navy could be depended on to concentrate their blows at military objectives. But the feelings of Americans boded ill for Japan...