straighten

“It’s now heading in the right direction. And we hope to have the support of Gavin, because Gavin is the big beneficiary as we straighten out his problems. I mean, his state is a mess.”

Certain dad deaths, though tough, leave ponderous messes to straighten.

He may be the latest out of many to play the role, but the same devotion to straightening odd knots keeps him ever-relevant.

"We want the candidates to be natural - whether with braids or straightened hair, it should be their own. Beauty must be raw," Victor Yapobi, president of the Miss Ivory Coast organising committee, told the BBC.

"I want Georgescu to straighten everyone out. They tricked us. They promised us more pension money," a middle-aged woman speaks quietly at first, then becomes bolder.