Remember when the U.S. was on top of the world, trying to get other nations to straighten up?

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After a while, it wasn't even that it was funny as much as that we needed to straighten up before that door opened.

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The following year, the International Cricket Council relaxed its rules, making it legal for bowlers to straighten their arms up to 15 degrees.

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At Vicksburg they must negotiate a 120-degree turn on the meandering Mississippi, then straighten up to pass under the railroad bridge and the Interstate 20 bridge.

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But a lot of people had wondered whether Rove's fourth appearance here would be just a short one, one to straighten out a few things, maybe clear up just a couple of points.

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They heated up all the old nails to straighten and reuse them, reused the old foundation stones, recreated the same lime mortar as originally used and had handmade windows made just as they would have been in the 18th century.

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