Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Harvard is to U.S. education, what the House of Morgan has been to U.S. finance, the New York Times is to U.S. journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...
Beveridge Plan. ". . . We must beware of attempts to overpersuade or even coerce His Majesty's Government to bind themselves or their unknown successors in conditions which no one can foresee. . . . [But] the time is now ripe for another great advance. . . . You must rank me and my colleagues as strong partisans of national compulsory insurance for all classes, for all purposes from the cradle to the grave...
...endless deserted villages, beggars swarming at every city gate, babies abandoned to cry and die on every highway. Nothing can transmit the horror of the entire great famine in Honan Province, or the irony of the green spring wheat with a promise of a bumper crop which is not ripe for harvesting for two more months. Most terrible of all is the knowledge that the famine might have been averted...
...similar course in the case of Italy and Japan certainly did not prevent those two countries from taking action inimical to American interests when they felt the time was ripe. . . . As in the case of Vichy, the Spanish policy inevitably strengthens a regime which is openly hostile to democracy and which is maintaining a force that is actually fighting one of America's associates (Russia) in the war against Hitler. . . . It remains to be seen whether the oil poured into Spain smooths troubled waters-or adds fuel to the flames...
People reading the promise of news to come were ripe for rumors...