Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good, ripe age of 43 and the presidency approach, Alemán has tempered, mellowed. When not campaigning, he spends his evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
Peggy Cummins, long the leader in the Hollywood clamber for the Amber role in Forever Amber-Irish-born, London-developed, 5 ft. i in., blonde, babyfaced, ripe-mouthed, grave-eyed and 20-bagged...
...once a year in New York [Doc] found a woman whose body was slim and whose hair was fair and whose eyes were grey and he took her to bed, and for an instant out of all time he let himself believe that her flesh was the color of ripe wheat...
...Ripe Time. They were in no mood for explanations. The war was over, they wanted to go home. It was as simple as that. Even occupation troops in Germany and Japan, who should have known better, joined the chorus. In Frankfurt 2,000 G.I.s crowded into the Army headquarters compound and G.I. orators shinnied up a lamppost to harangue them. They yelled for soldierly Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney to come out and face them if he was not too "scared." McNarney was in Berlin at a meeting of the Four-Power Control Council. The G.I.s showed what they thought...
...situation became so critical that Major General Clovis E. Byers, chief of staff of the Eighth Army in Japan, warned: "None of our divisions is up to full strength. ... If any group of Japanese decided the time was ripe for revolt they would certainly pick a time when they believed there was dissatisfaction in the American Army. It appears that subversive forces are deliberately at work, for obscure reasons, attempting to undermine the morale of our Army." The soldiers still felt that the only critical situation was their distance from home...