Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toronto, a Latin American refugee, 26, froze in terror when a well-wisher brought him a gift basket that included two pineapples. In the refugee's native country, he had been forced to watch as his military captor hacked several prisoners to death, then carved up a ripe pineapple with the bloodstained machete and calmly ate the slices...
Conditions appeared to be ripe last week for the long-predicted breakup of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The pressure of OPEC's three-year struggle to prop up global oil prices seemed, at long last, to have fractured the group beyond repair. During the three-day emergency meeting in Geneva, OPEC's ministers let loose an unprecedented public display of insults, accusations and stubbornness. Yet once again the blowup failed to happen, and the group reached some broad agreements. Nonetheless, those accords showed convincingly that OPEC has lost its ability to dictate world oil prices...
...confirmation of Law's role in the international Roman Catholic Church will be his eventual elevation to the position of Cardinal. With American's supply of Cardinals depleted and with the majority past the age of voting in a conclave for a pope, the 52-year old Archbishop is ripe for the choosing...
...converted our national confusions into witty, imaginative fiction. End Zone, a resourceful handling of football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...
Tsongas' departure from the Senate should not have been a big deal ("MAN DECIDES FAMILY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CAREER! GIVES UP CAREER FOR WIFE, KIDS!"). Yet, the former Peace Corps volunteer in retirement at the ripe age of 43 has become a one-man spokesman against the social ravages of Yuppiedom...