Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those apples aren't ripe. A lot of my men have chronic stomachaches. I wish their mothers had taught them better...
...haberdashery venture, and Pendergast had started him off as a county road overseer. By 1934 Harry Truman had become presiding judge of Jackson County, Mo. (which in Missouri is actually the county's administrative officer; as such he spent $25,000,000 on roads and buildings). He was ripe for another step up the ladder, and asked Pendergast for the county collectorship. Big Tom replied: "The best I can do now, Harry, is a United States Senatorship; how's that...
Morton Downey, who grosses $250,000 a year from radio alone, has no such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because of "a definitely narrow and sectarian religious view and background . . . a disqualification for effective service...
...Clifton Copley figures that the time is ripe to set up shop in more small cities and print "chatty, back-fence community newspapers like we knew as children." Only that sort of paper, he is convinced, can compete with radio and national news magazines in the years ahead...