Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the little eddies and whirlpools of battle, the main tide was unmistakable. London was getting ripe for evacuation. Evacuation would fill Britain's roads and rail lines with refugees. Britain's rear would then be meat for total war. The censors permitted the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly to cable at week's end: "It would be a poor observer or propagandist who would now ask America to believe that London is still doing business as usual...
...Philippines. A Japanese once remarked to a Filipino politician in Manila: "If we invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence would mean the end of a U. S. market which has absorbed 85% of Philippine products. Recently Quezon had his Assembly pass an immigration law, aimed at Japanese infiltration, limiting the quota of every country...
...moon of Mah-No-Men with street fairs and carnivals. Frank Broker meantime kept his eye on the wide, shallow lakes and their waving tops of grain. As in the old days, no Chippewa dared go into the fields until the tribal chieftain announced that the rice was ripe for harvest. This year Chippewas and whites alike awaited Frank Broker's word...
Claimant Almazán, "vacationing" in Havana since the election, announced in a broadcast that he would return to Mexico when the time was ripe for assuming the Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads...
...going to need all that wild piratical blood. My ancestor (remember Commodore Edward M. Preble of Old Ironsides fame) rode into this Ohio country as an itinerant Methodist preacher . . . a pistol in his belt and a jug of Monongahela whiskey tied to his saddle. He was a pioneer, ripe for a fight or a frolic at any moment. He found both, aplenty...