Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murayama, a Japanese newsman recently captured in the Philippines, thought that Japan was ripe for surrender. He said that the man picked to arrange it was an almost forgotten political zombie, Admiral and former Premier Keisuke Okada...
Postwar Prize. This exchange of accusations focused attention on a juicy plum that may soon be ripe for picking...
...dire need of coal, raw materials, and food. The Allies are doing all they can to help Italy, but that may not be enough. A top Cabinet member said that the situation may be so serious in a few months that the Communists might decide the time was ripe for revolt. The Communist Party is growing, and many of the new members are ex-Fascists...
...months Wavell went about India, a British pilgrim in search of understanding, absorbing the atmosphere of the age-old land, trying to feel his way toward solution of its problems. India, he decided last spring, was ripe for self-government. He broached his idea for a modified Cripps Plan (TIME, June 25) to Gandhi and other leaders. Assured of their willingness to consider his scheme, the Viceroy flew to London...
...retreating enemy. One observation plane called for fire on a column in shiny American cars, stolen in Manila, and bamboo-hooded carabao carts, snatched from Igorot farmers. Wrote TIME Correspondent William Gray: "When I saw the area two days later, burned roadside huts were still smoking, the air was ripe with the stench of dead men and animals and souring spilled rice. A scattered pile...