directness / the state of being unbent / (baseball, softball) a fastball / (poker) a straight

global

dream (aspiration)

country (music genre)

Houston (a large city in Texas, United States) / Houston (a town in the Bulkley Valley, British Columbia, Canada) / Houston (a village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland)

general and ubiquitous / everywhere in the universe

security; safety / (finance) security

Manchester (a major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England) / Manchester (a town in Bolivia) / Manchester (a small community in Nova Scotia, Canada)

commune

Lawrence / Laurence