Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ewart needed all the help he could get in his race against Jim Murray, who has become a habit with Montanans. Every six years, the Republicans figure Murray is ripe for plucking. His age (78) is cited against him. and he is a pariah to the Democratic isolationists following ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler. D'Ewart, whose congressional district covers more than half the state, is well-known and well-liked. Nevertheless, chances are Montana will re-elect Murray, as it has since...
...Russians went, Hamid and Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...
...harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived to a ripe age plotting bloodthirstily against the Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries and (says a Turkish poet) "opened the gate of the Orient to a new light." "We see [through Aimée]," concludes Author Blanch...
...nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford new clothes for her). She not only attained a ripe age (for Hollywood) without marrying anybody, but, so far as anyone knew, had never even been in love before. By all signs, neither had Bachelor Fisher, who had also come up the hard way, getting off to a singing start by warbling in the Philadelphia streets about the merits of his father...
...made nine errors in three innings in his first game, feigned a leg injury to get off the field. The disgusted manager of the team, whose father was a produce dealer, waived Riss to him. He put Riss to work selling a carload of ripe bananas before they spoiled. Riss not only turned in a profit but in a few months was in his own produce business, with a truck and a debt of $1,060. When he made back the $1,060 in 25 days by hauling fruit from orchards and farms, the town's leading produce dealer...