Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the economic and political variables, there is one constant: Election Day falls on November 2. The popularity of a tax cut makes the issue a ripe plum for the politicians, who are taking every opportunity to capitalize on it. Political maneuvering in Congress is to be expected during an election year, but it is highly dangerous to mix politics with the complex problems of national finance. Any tax cut in the near future must be one not made with a view to its vote-getting consequences, and preferably one that would actively encourage savings. A bill that...
...Spiritual Union." Then Bevin gave them the phrase they were waiting for: "Western Union." It was a milestone in postwar history. Bevin explained it: "I believe the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe...
Then, once more aboard his private train, Dimitrov told correspondents of still greater events to come. Treaties of alliance between all the Eastern European states, he said, would be followed by customs unions, and after that-"when the time is ripe our peoples will decide whether it shall be a federation or a confederation of states, and they also shall decide the moment when it will take the shape of a state." Candidates for inclusion in the new state, as listed by Dimitrov: Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia "and even Greece...
...back home again. With him and the new mayor, Frank Dibben, some of Southampton's 25,000 school children were lined up in the Bassett Green schoolyard (see cut) to wish a merry Christmas to far-off Chambersburg and to collect their share (five apiece) of the ripe, red-cheeked Pennsylvania apples that tasted as sweet as a promise made and kept...
...When I was born," says Eddy Arnold in a rich, ripe Tennessee twang, "Dad hung up his riddle and never played any more. Don't know why exactly, but that was the way folks did things there...