Straight hey for four-dancers face alternately, the two in the middle facing out.

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.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

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.

This example is from the first generation of PDP-8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8.

" Straight Edge ," a song from the band's first EP, helped to inspire the straight edge movement.

This example is from the first generation of PDP-8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8.

His first movie appearance was in Chappaqua in 1966, which was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood, Crazy Joe, Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and The Forbidden Zone.

Towards the end of the decade, and the start of the 1950s, he worked for Magazine Enterprises on features including " The Durango Kid ," the first Ghost Rider, " Red Hawk ," " Straight Arrow " and " Tim Holt ," in whose comic the Ghost Rider appeared.

Owatonna was first settled in 1853 around the Straight River.

Deer Park built the first permanent school building in Wyandanch on Straight Path at 20th Street in 1913.

The Wyandanch school district first provided space for 35 children in a classroom in the Straight Path Elementary School and later provided room in an empty building adjacent to the Milton.

* Straight ( Tobias Regner album ), the first album by German singer Tobias Regner

Their first reunion album was Slow Flux which included their last Top 40 hit, " Straight Shootin ' Woman ".

Their first collaboration, " Straight From the Factory ", took them only 20 minutes to write.

In 1985, Spade's protégé Toddy Tee recorded South Central LA's first anthem before Straight Outta Compton, " The Batteram ".

The first was very much like a hardboiled detective series and starred Michael Rye ( credited as Rye Billsbury ) as Dillon ; the second starred Straight Arrow actor Howard Culver in a more Western, lighter version of the same script.

He was an aviator of exceptional breadth of experience, from his quest to become the first person to achieve a solo balloon flight around the world ( finally succeeding on his sixth attempt, in 2002, becoming the first person to complete an uninterrupted and unrefueled solo circumnavigation of the world in any kind of aircraft ) to setting, with co-pilot Terry Delore, 10 of the 21 Glider Open records, including the first 2, 000 km Out-and-Return, the first 1, 500 km Triangle and the longest Straight Distance flights.

The record was the first recorded with long-time friend and former Straight Ahead, Rest In Pieces, Youth of Today and Agnostic Front bass player Craig Setari, who had replaced Rich Cipriano in early 1993.

* Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Up September 1940 Popular Mechanics article showing Sikorsky flying his first helicopter and introducing him to the general public

Mackay returned to the role of the newly retired prison officer in the first episode of Going Straight ( 1978 ), the sequel series to Porridge.

Danielle trained as a dancer at the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts in Romford, Essex, which was her home town, and also went to the Bedfords Park Community School in Straight Road, Harold Hill.

In the episode, " Long Drive " of Malcolm in the Middle, a day in jail tests a defiant Reese who faces a Scared Straight encounter.

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

Many other films are associated with punk, such as 24 Hour Party People, which presents the evolution of punk rock into New Wave and Madchester, and Threat, which focuses on militant Straight edge punks in the New York hardcore scene.

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 ).

The Council was composed of The Family Dog, The Straight Theatre, The Diggers, The San Francisco Oracle, and approximately twenty-five other people, who sought to alleviate some of the problems anticipated from the influx of people expected in the summer.

* Straight Blackwood is used, and not the " Roman Key-Card " or other variation.

" Straight edge " is a newer idiom for abstaining from alcohol and other intoxicants, referring to a sub-culture born within hardcore punk that promotes abstinence from alcohol, drugs and cigarettes.

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.

As the 60's progressed, he recorded some twenty additional albums as a leader, and continued to record as a sideman on the albums of other artists, including Wayne Shorter's Night Dreamer ; Stanley Turrentine's Mr. Natural ; Freddie Hubbard's The Night of the Cookers ; Hank Mobley's Dippin ', A Caddy for Daddy, A Slice of the Top, Straight No Filter ; Jackie McLean's Jackknife and Consequence ; Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe ; McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments ; Lonnie Smith's Think and Turning Point ; Elvin Jones ' The Prime Element ; Jack Wilson's Easterly Winds ; Reuben Wilson's Love Bug ; Larry Young's Mother Ship ; Lee Morgan and Clifford Jordan Live in Baltimore 1968 ; Andrew Hill's Grass Roots ; as well as on several albums with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

" Straight path of width w " may be defined as the set of all points within a distance of w / 2 of a straight line on a plane, or a great circle on a sphere, or in general any geodesic on any other kind of manifold.

Amongst other members, also later accused of being part of the Cambridge spy ring, were the American Michael Whitney Straight and Victor Rothschild who later worked for MI5.

On the other side, a group led by former CPGB student organiser Fergus Nicholson was emerging that later became " Straight Left "; while French's Surrey District committee refrained from faction fighting which would have led to disciplinary action.

Often known simply as The Straight, this large " tabloid " format unconventional publication is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations around Metro Vancouver every Thursday.

However, not everyone agreed with McLeod's interpretation of events and pointed out that The Straight had a significantly lower editorial-to-advertising ratio than many other alternative and university papers.

The Straight has been criticised for publishing cigarette and other tobacco advertising when most publications in Canada have declined to do so for moral and ethical reasons.

* Co-author, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better ( Clarkson Potter, 2004 ), with the four other cast members.

The other three acting awards were swept by Network performers: Best Actor for Peter Finch, Best Actress for Faye Dunaway, and Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Straight.

In addition to Straight University, the AMA helped found several other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, such as Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University ( with Freedmen's Bureau ), Huston-Tillotson University, LeMoyne-Owen College, Talladega College, and Tougaloo College.

With the singles " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )" ( a Van Morrison cover ) and " Let's Get This Straight ( From The Start )" maintaining their popularity, the group continued to tour until 1983 with a nucleus of Rowland, Adams, O ' Hara and Shelton augmented by other musicians.

It ranks just above a straight, and below a Straight Flush House or any other cat or dog.

It ranks just below a Straight Flush House, and above a straight or any other cat or dog.

Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., is a private family-owned and operated distillery company headquartered in Bardstown, Kentucky that produces and markets the Heaven Hill brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and a variety of other distilled spirits.

Play it Straight consisted of re-arranged and re-recorded versions of material gleaned from other New Zealand composers.