Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Lansing, Mich, is a little community called Fertile Valley. It is so called not for its rich orchards or ripe vineyards (it hasn't any) but for its big crop of babies. (Latest count: 800, with 288 on the way.) Fertile Valley is Michigan State College's "vet village," a collection of apartments, trailers and prefabs that is as squat and ugly as dozens of other emergency campus camps from the state of Washington to Florida...
...Communist, ex-Trotskyite professor who has recently been canonized by Time-Life, is a shrewder, slicker model of this type (top of his Princeton class, always a sharp dresser); his book is smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which...
...those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over the place, and hulking Sub-Menace Lon Chaney Jr. takes a simple, boobish pleasure in cracking walnuts with his biceps...
With the exception of a slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend...
...decide." He explained, without bitterness, that his motive was not a projection of the "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" doctrine. The Jews were too much hurt, he says. Along with other rabbis and chaplains he feels that the time is not yet ripe for Germans to be admitted into the Jewish faith...