The story is told in a straight, matter-of-fact style by Lerner: an audacious plan which ironically depended on the German guards' utter punctuality and fidelity to their own inspection schedule.
But setting the record straight matters less because of the battlefield casualties than because of what it paved the way for thereafter.
In fact, being anything other than "straight" matters; you don't see headlines when a male celebrity announces that he dates women.
We like an author who gives it to us straight, no matter how fancy his prose style may be.
"They're both tall and thin, and Ana has this long black hair that just goes straight no matter what the conditions".
Linotype, which has now largely been supplanted by photocomposition, was most often used when large amounts of straight text matter were to be set.
Labour claims that the change reflects a willingness to "cross a line" that would abandon British traditions of decency, but it's not a straight party matter.
There are wobbly stools that we scavenged from a neighborhood bar's trash in the middle of a blizzard, and a wall full of framed artwork that won't hang straight no matter what I do.
Li had something else to say about the schedule: "In China, we think of bus drivers as superhumans who can work twenty-four hourstraightht, no matter how late we want them to drive.
Jam on the brakes and cause a skid in an old car, he said, and the car will go straight no matter how you turn the wheel; do the same with antilock brakes, and the car will turn the way the front wheels are pointed.
The chapter also presents a study to determine if the column will remain straight no matter what the level of the applied force is.
