Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call for it either. Nevertheless, the French believe that their assembly would at least be a step in the right direction. The British believe that this is self-deception. They claim that (like U.N.) the assembly would raise extravagant hopes of unity where conditions for unity are not yet ripe...
With the air of a man about to pluck a ripe plum, Beck also made a soft-voiced announcement of his plans for New York City. The teamsters, he said, would concentrate on department-store warehousemen, but would also claim jurisdiction over the big city's brewery workers...
...from Poland appeared on the scene. He had been repatriated with 365 other Spanish Jews from a Nazi concentration camp; his entire family of 30 had perished. He met secretly with Ignacio Bauer and one Joseph Cuby, a British Jew from Gibraltar. He persuaded them that the time was ripe to reopen a synagogue in Spain...
...darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against the "tenderometer," a newfangled "diabolical machine [that] actually proposes to tell a man when his Baldwins . . . and Northern Spies are ripe enough to pick...
...fearful speed. They started by solving mathematical equations with flash-of-lightning rapidity. Now they are beginning to act like genuine mechanical brains. Dr. Wiener sees no reason why they can't learn from experience, like monstrous and precocious children racing through grammar school. One such mechanical brain, ripe with stored experience, might run a whole industry, replacing not only mechanics and clerks but many of the executives...