Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress Party's evident unpopularity made the situation ripe for government members like Minister of Agriculture Jagjivan Ram to defect and form their own parties. Moreover, for the first time in India's history the Opposition united against the Congress. Four major parties combined to form the Janata (People's) party: the Jan Sangh, the Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD), the opposition 'Old' Congress, and the Socialist party. The Janata campaigned in coalition with Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy party (CFD) and other smaller regional parties. Thus the opposition vote did not split, and the election became a two-party...
...Jordan's King Hussein to agree to federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This week in Washington he will argue that the Arab world is basically united (or at least as united as it is ever likely to be) and that the time is ripe for a return to Geneva and an attempt to achieve an overall peace settlement in the Middle East...
Richards said he was startled by the suddeness of the council's actions, adding that "the time was just ripe for the move...
...Republic of Technology is a world of obsolescence. Our characteristic printed matter is not a deathless literary work but today's newspaper that makes yesterday's newspaper worthless. Old objects simply become secondhand-to be ripe for the next season's recycling. In this world the great library is apt to seem not so much a treasurehouse as a cemetery. A Louis Sullivan building is torn down to make way for a parking garage. Progress seems to have become quick, sudden and wholesale...
...feels optimistic about his chances against the Terriers and the Owls, and because his charges meet Hofstra in the final meet of the arduous afternoon, he hopes that the Dutchmen will be tired and ripe for an upset...