Word: ripe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experiment that covered the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants at New York University selected 37 "meteorological situations." Ten hours ahead of the time that they thought the clouds would be ripe for seeding, they telephoned Norfolk, Va. When zero hour came, three planes flew parallel tracks, dropping trails of Dry Ice. Simultaneously, 17 ground generators, from Tampa, Fla. to New York City, filled the air with silver iodide particles. Guided by chance, the Norfolk seeders reserved 19 of the 37 situations...
Salesman Rantz soon owns everything, but finds himself utterly alone. Even Kula, the native girl who had fallen into his arms like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free...
Marlene sounds mellower than ever before. She is still a bored, poised and cynical siren, but compassionate and full of ripe wisdom. "In your voice we hear the voice of the Lorelei." says Jean Cocteau in the album notes, ''but the Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant...
...first official act as president, Meany revived the dormant Labor Unity Committee, and for two years he worked ceaselessly toward a merger. This year at Miami he knew that the time was ripe. Meeting in February with five other top leaders, Meany told them it was then or-as far as he was concerned-never. C.I.O. and A.F.L. negotiators quickly ironed out their differences, signed the agreement to merge...
...Pennsylvania Amish, ought to prove popular. A good part of the time-thanks to Broadway as well as Amish industriousness-it is refreshingly lively; the rest of the time it seems-as the Amish themselves might-refreshingly dull. The whole thing has about it a nice country smell of ripe apples and respectable oddity...