Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oppression of the satellites has been depressing. But chaos can have a bright aspect, provided some attempt is made to shape better forms from it. The world has been quickened for the first time since the onset of the Cold War by the satellite revolts. It is ripe for a conscious, artistic leadership, which will mold the world into a new form...
During World War I Kaethe Kollwitz lost her eldest son, Peter. This tragedy is carved into her self portrait. In the years that followed she devoted herself in every way possible to ending the feelings of over-ripe nationalism and aggressiveness that had torn her country and sent her son to an early death. Though she repudiated her son's nationalistic philosophy she loved him deeply, and we may gather that he was the inspiration for much of her work if not for the famous Death series done later in her life. As she wrote in 1916 "Made a drawing...
Regardless of who won the 1952 election, the nation's loyalty and security programs were ripe for a thoroughgoing revision by the end of the Truman Administration. Disorganized and handcuffed by continuing Congressional investigations, hiring procedures were uneven and inadequate to protect the national security...
...when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest white corn, the best rye, barley malt, both fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four to six years in new, charred whiteoak barrels...
Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...