And the crooked places made straight: the struggle for social change in the 1960s (1991)

"It's a crooked little place, you know."

This area's first settlement in 1659 was named Penacook, for the Indian name Pannukog, meaning crooked place or bend in the river.

"I," saith He, "will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight."

With you the belief in a future where the crooked places will be made straight is instinctive.

Eugene Rowen, horn-rimmed glasses in place and tie still crooked, stood to speak.

The well-to-do summer occupants seem to have strayed into this tiny crooked place from a classier neighborhood.

Every valley has been exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; the crooked places have been made straight and the rough places smooth.

Investigators here say the indictment will be superseded by a longer set of charges, closely detailing how Cancún became one of the more crooked places in Mexico.

At first I thought the curtain rod was sagging, but closer examination showed it had actually been nailed in place crooked.