Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more than an enclave around Saigon, was still "South Vietnam." In United Press International's dispatches, North Vietnamese troops and the NLF "overran" province after province. And Time attributed many of Saigon's difficulties to Montagnard tribesmen "who, as despised fourth class citizens in South Vietnam, were ripe for exploitation by the Communists," and who now "infested" much of the country where they were fourth-class citizens...
...damned Israeli proposals for further disengagement in Sinai were having kinder thoughts in January. They surmised that Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had initially put together an unacceptable package in order to mollify Israeli hawks and were now ready for serious bargaining. "The time is ripe for continued diplomatic efforts to bring peace to the area," said Egyptian Information Minister Ahmad Kamal Abul-Magd. "Cairo is keeping all bridges open...
Good Time Charley. I suppose it was only a matter of time. The idea was obvious, the time so ripe, that my only question is, "what took so long?" A musical about Joan of Arc. It only took the Church 500 years to canonize her. Better late than never, is one tempted to explain? It won't do. Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing...
California counterculture has a word for Betts'tone--mellow, but that's not quite right: a little too mindless and innocent--the Youngbloods, jugs of wine on grassy hillsides, women with long straight hair strumming guitars. Betts's music is mellow in that it's ripe, at peace because it's headed in the right direction...
Dodging raw eggs and ripe tomatoes, Senator Edward Kennedy dashed into an office building in Boston just before a mob of irate white parents smashed one of its plate-glass windows. The crowd had booed him off the speaker's platform at an antibusing rally outside city hall because of his past statements urging them to stop the fight against the court order that desegregated Boston schools last week. At another rally, whites cheered a speaker who nominated the Senator for "bus driver of the year-if he ever gets his driver's license back...