Straight hey for three-the first dancer faces the other two and passes right shoulders with the second dancer, left shoulder with the third-the other dancers moving and passing the indicated shoulder.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

* Straight razor: A reusable knife blade used for shaving hair.

* 1989: Straight From the Underground Tour ( opened for Ice Cube, Too $ hort, D Nice and Yo-Yo )

Straight hands of five cards are sometimes used as a final showdown, but poker is almost always played in a more complex form to allow for additional strategy.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

Straight or flush with Ace-face or pair for the top: Always play as straight or flush with an ace-face or pair top, except if two pairs Aces with 8 ’ s or better can be played, and when the straight or flush does not have a pair.

Straight or flush with full house: Play as split up full house if a pair of aces can be put up as the two-card side when the flush or straight cannot, else play the straight or flush if a pair can be put up for the two-card side, else play as a split up full house.

Straight lines represent straight fingers ( these may be at an angle to indicate that they are not in line with the palm ; if they point toward or away from the signer, they have a diamond shape at the tip ); curved lines for curved ( cupped ) fingers ; hooked lines for hooked fingers ; right-angle lines, for fingers bent at only one joint ; and crossed lines, for crossed fingers, as shown in the chart at right.

Straight movements are in one of eight directions for either plane, as in the eight principal directions of a compass.

From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre / Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known.

Unlike his prior films ( or any that would follow ), The Straight Story was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures after a successful debut at Cannes, was given a G rating by the MPAA and is the only Lynch film for which Lynch himself did not have a hand in the screenplay ( although it was co-written by his recurring associate, Mary Sweeney ).

He actually took the role out of admiration for Alvin Straight, and astonished his co-workers with his tenacity during production.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

Straight or Flush with one pair: If you can play a face pair with an ace-face top when the straight or flush gives only a Q-x or lower top, play the strong pair with an ace-face top.

Straight to the heart but spare the face.

* Straight face test

On January 11 Mike Tyson, who was the Raw guest host for the night, teamed with Jericho to face DX ; however, at the end of the bout, Tyson turned on Jericho and aligned himself with Michaels and Triple H. On the February 8, 2010 episode of Raw, DX lost their Unified Tag Team Titles to ShoMiz ( The Miz and The Big Show ) in a Triple Threat Elimination Tag Team match also featuring The Straight Edge Society ( CM Punk and Luke Gallows.

* Straight: Six cards with consecutive face values, of any suits ( see below )

* Straight Flush: Six cards of the same suit, with consecutive face values

During the " Scared Straight " crossover between Thunderbolts and Avengers Academy, the Purple Man is revealed to be incarcerated in the Raft Maximum Security Penitentiary, as Tigra warns her Academy students not to look at his face or read his lips.

Another successful a cappella group is Straight No Chaser ( SNC ), which is actually two separate but related groups, one of which is an a cappella, collegiate group from Indiana University in the USA.

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Straight or Flush with two other pairs: Play as two pairs only if:

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

After being dropped by two consecutive record labels, they signed to Zappa's Straight Records.

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, light industrial factories were established in Wyandanch in the northern section of the Pinelawn Industrial Park in southwest Wyandanch and on the east side of Straight Path between two African-American housing estates.

The city takes its name from a former road, Gun Barrel Lane ( which is now State Highway 198 ), as well as its motto, " We Shoot Straight with You " and its symbol-a rifle with two crossed antique pistols.

She starred in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately displeased with acting, and quit.

* Straight whiskey, pure whiskey distilled at no higher than 80 % alcohol content that has been aged at least two years

MI5 received information from American Michael Straight in 1964 which pointed to Blunt's espionage ; the two had known each other at Cambridge some thirty years before and Blunt had tried to recruit Straight as a spy.

In 1972 and 1974, Straight Arrow Press, Rolling Stones book publishing arm, published two books authored by the Firesign Theatre.

EMI revived the Regal Zonophone imprint in 1967 to handle the Essex Music / Straight Ahead producing account that had moved from Deram ( after one Procol Harum single and two singles by The Move ) and continued well into the early 1970s, with successful producers Denny Cordell and Tony Visconti both having production companies releasing records through the label.

The show theme for the first two seasons was titled "( This Is The Way ) I Am ", and was written and produced by Widelife, also creators of the theme for Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and performed by Faith Trent.

Laid Back's next two albums, Play It Straight ( 1985 ) and See You in the Lobby ( 1987 ), and singles such as " Abu Dhabi " and " Tricky Kind of Thing ", were released to little fanfare and limited chart success.

Vocalist Roy Kenner and guitarist Domenic Troiano then joined the band for the next two albums, Passin ' Thru ( July 1972 ) and Straight Shooter ( October 1972 ).

Youth Of Today was formed in Danbury, Connecticut in 1985 by two members of the hardcore band Violent Children, Ray Cappo ( vocals ) and John Porcelly ( Porcell ) ( guitar ) were aiming to start a Straight Edge band at a time when most old school straight edge bands had disbanded.

After touring for a while both Graham and Darren left the band, and two members of New York band Straight Ahead joined Ray and John, Craig Setari ( bass ) and Tommy Carroll ( drums ).

The first two were on European issues, Straight Talking on Europe in 2000, and A Declaration of Independence in 2002.

A widely-read reference to urban legends, Cecil Adams's The Straight Dope, devoted two columns to the dispute.