Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the city would live through more than nine human generations. As soothsayers go, he was pretty accurate: it lived some 200 years before enemies stormed it and set it afire. By then, decayed old Phrax, the vigor of its youth and the wealth of its maturity gone, was ripe for death...
...essentially a political operator-jaunty, backslapping, forever doing favors, confidential with correspondents, quick at sizing up the practicalities of a situation, ever willing to take the apparently radical course from which the highly trained, career-conscious professionals are likely to hang back. Said Peurifoy once: "The State Department was ripe for guys like...
...Mirza, is a blunt soldier who believes his people ready only for a "controlled democracy." Descended from one of the great Mogul families of India, and the son of a wealthy Bengal landowner, Mirza is a Moslem aristocrat and autocrat. Says he bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted...
...London, Britain's dagger-eyed, razor-brained Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, baptized an Anglican, decided at a ripe 67 on a change of church. Kneeling in London's (Jesuit) Immaculate Conception Church, Dame Edith was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Said Convert Sitwell humbly: "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy...
...Shivers managed election to an unprecedented third term as governor, but the going was not easy. A ripe array of administrative scandals have erupted, e.g., the Houston grain scandal and the veterans' land mess (see-below). Although none of these implicated the governor personally, they were laid at his door. And at the start of his seventh year as governor, lanky Allan Shivers finds himself in the awkward role of the man who came to dinner. As one Dallas Democrat put it: "He's stayed too damn long...