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  • O'Malley's straight-arrow response: "Practice, practice, practice."

    Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley Robert McCartney 2010

  • O'Malley's straight-arrow response: "Practice, practice, practice."

    Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley Robert McCartney 2010

  • I can name at least a dozen straight-arrow soldiers, like Jason, who craved that combat high.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Play No. 1 is a conventional out-of-the-closet-and-into-the-fire drama about Joe Pitt (Bill Heck), a straight-arrow Mormon lawyer with Republican connections who tries without success to conceal his heterodox sexual urges from Harper (Zoe Kazan), his fey, Valium-popping wife.

    Seven Ways of Looking at 'Angels' Terry Teachout 2010

  • I can name at least a dozen straight-arrow soldiers, like Jason, who craved that combat high.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the show were fired in two hours.

    Eric Deggans: How Sunday's Celebrity Apprentice Revealed Donald Trump's Problems With Race and Women Eric Deggans 2011

  • I can name at least a dozen straight-arrow soldiers, like Jason, who craved that combat high.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • The room got quiet as everyone turned to see what had made straight-arrow Alan curse.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the show were fired in two hours.

    Eric Deggans: How Sunday's Celebrity Apprentice Revealed Donald Trump's Problems With Race and Women Eric Deggans 2011

  • This line alluded not only to the scandals of the Clinton years, but harked back to his father, the straight-arrow incumbent who occupied the Oval Office before Slick Willy sullied it.

    Presidential Fathers and Sons Michael Medved 2012

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