Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that won't get you." One of his most successful ads showed a ripe-lipped lass raising a bumper glass of grape juice with the invitation: "The lips that touch Welch's are all that touch mine...
Your July 16 story on the handling by the press of the Weinberger kidnaping is very distressing. This latest episode harks back to others, which would lead one to believe that some newsmen would sell their mothers into prostitution for a good story. Isn't the time ripe for pressmen to organize an ethical standards committee with power to censure such practices...
...issue continues to show Lollobrigida & Co. Without the names to identify, they all look alike-with their bosoms trussed high, their black eyes, sullen lips and the inevitable Italian haircut. Would certainly be most interesting to see these same Italian glamour gals by the time they arrive at the ripe age of 40. We would undoubtedly beg for the forgotten All-America girl who looks just as good...
During the Irish Rebellion of 1798 priests were sometimes executed by the "pitch cap": a tonsure of tar was ignited on the condemned man's head. Honor Tracy gives her own light twist to those cruel days. She drops a ripe red mulberry on the head of the canon. Its juice is the same color as his own flushed scalp. From there on, talented Author Tracy rarely, if ever, relents. In one word, the story is Irish, perhaps - to borrow the judgment Joyce's Dedalus made of his "all Irish" father - it is "all too Irish...
...Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...