Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you recall seeing this three-quarter-page advertisement by the Communists last summer in papers all over the country, in which Earl Browder says: "The time is more than ripe for the United States to insist that the Chungking Government shall put its house in order with a real, not a .formal, unification of all Chinese fighting forces...
Borneo was ripe for MacArthur's attention, for on the Philippines the campaign had settled down to a hard, patient mop-up in the dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita...
Last week, ripe for a showdown, New York's Selective Service Director, Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...
...drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...
...Medal for Benny (Paramount) rates a medal for Paramount. The first reels of this John Steinbeck story are a little ripe with folksiness, but along about the middle the picture comes vividly to life...