Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "One who could never say with Shakespeare's Duke of Kent, 'I am too old to learn,' he is still alertly learning at the age of 90. For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading...
...daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption...
Another indication of increasing cordiality came this year in the area of undergraduate life. Harvard's Dean Watson and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey, recognizing that men and women are working together in extracurricular activities, suggested that the time may be ripe to discuss a formal merger of undergraduate organizations...
...Using curves of eyebrows to raise the curve"). No one wants clown shots or old-new gimmicks, and we should be grateful that 321 avoids them. But the undergraduate and even Mother, would like a little humor. And 321 provides none, even when it is there to be shaken ripe from the limb. The Lamont Dupont feat, handled with some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed...
...Manhattan's most mysterious citizens, aging (66), ailing Frank Costello, commonly termed a gambler and tax-dodger because no more nefarious raps have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would...