Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation this year is almost the same. Once again the Crimson enters the game a rank underdog. Once again, Blaik has built a crushing attack around hammering Hank Mazur and ripping Ralph Hill, two bruising triple threat backs. And again, the slow-to develop Harlow attack may be ripe to blast the Army...
...best Republican brains in the House, each drew up his own ten points. Then they argued, cast out some proposals, refined others. After 19 false starts they got a document that satisfied them. The Republican caucus liked it ard adopted it. When they finally decided that the time was ripe to publish it, it won the private admiration of even most Democrats...
...beginning of "The Great Man's Lady," Barbara Stanwyck is supposed to be eighteen years old. By the time the film is over, she has reached the ripe old age of one hundred and two. This probably sets some sort of Hollywood record for long-drawn-out bores, and it's a fifty-fifty chance you'll feel as old as Miss Stanwyck looks when, and if, you've sat through...
Effective treatment for celiaca is skimmed lactic-acid milk and plenty of ripe bananas, and injections of pancreatic extract. But thanks to submarines, the U.S. has few bananas, and without fresh or powdered bananas celiacous children may develop the disease all over again, losing, in a few days, all the weight they have gained over a period of months...
...South was, in sum, violence, cruelty, humiliation, poverty, despair, sorrow, murder, a confusion between self-interest and selfless patriotism, of which Author Richards can write like a blow between the eyes, and which sometimes he overdoes. If corpses dropped less often than ripe plums, in less tricky postures of amazement at death, and if fingers moved less automatically to triggers, this would have been a better novel. Even as it is, a queer cross between a Freudian dream and a Grand Guignol shocker, it is good enough to suggest that it will almost certainly sire a better...