Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life span lengthened, but the body is actually healthier at a given age than 50 years ago. Dr. Jones' prognosis: as the conquest of disease goes on, man may expect to creep ever closer to his theoretical disease-free metabolic life expectancy (estimated by some to be a ripe old 120 years...
...Candidate Estes Kefauver the New Jersey apple appeared sweet and ripe and ready for picking. Adlai Stevenson was not entered in the New Jersey primary, and Kefauver, who specializes in trouncing state organizations, saw little to fear in the unpledged slate of delegates headed by Governor Robert Meyner and representing the New Jersey regulars. By so underestimating Robert Baumie Meyner, Kefauver got his apple, all right. But it was bitter and overripe and thrown right in his face...
...brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands," he once bitterly summed up Freud's theory. Jung (TIME, Feb. 14, 1955) lives in Zurich today, a ripe 80, contentedly delving into dreams, yoga. Buddhism, ancient superstitions, tribal rites and other mystic areas...
...healthy and decisive, while the democracies are decrepit, dilatory. corrupt and weak. In one sense, the totalitarians are young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same as it was in the Middle Ages. Starvation, slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young are the dictator's ideal dupes with their "excess of energy," their "lack of attachments, their impulse toward sacrifice, their ignorance." They become the zealots; the majority of SS men who ran Buchenwald in 1938 were between the ages...
...sold Stalin the idea that South Korea was another ripe plum waiting to fall into the Soviet basket was three-star General Terenty F. Shtykov, boss of the Soviet armed forces in North Korea and later Soviet ambassador to Pyongyang. When the Communist invasion unexpectedly ran into allied armed opposition, Stalin pulled the rank and ribbons off Shtykov and sent him into that twilight of disfavor which has so often preceded the long night for Communist bigwigs. But last week Shtykov surprised the world by springing back into the news: at Vladivostok (only 400 miles from his old stamping ground...