Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very serious ones, like Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland...
...France and Britain might have fought. They were old enemies and current imperial rivals. Yet they did not fight: the French had little chance against British sea power; the British had little interest in destroying the French check on Austrian and Prussian land power. Britain and France were not "ripe...
...conflict between the U.S. and Russia ripe today...
...time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...
Peaches & Plums. This year's vegetable crop is a record-breaker and By Ward Market showed it. Ripe tomatoes as big as softballs glowed in almost every stall. Heaps of corn, cucumbers, rutabagas and broccoli were piled around them. On the fruit stands were new Duchess and Melba apples, peaches, plums and melons. For added color and fragrance there were asters, snapdragons, baby's breath, zinnias...