Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ripe Plum. How would the British take a U.S. policy change? The British Foreign Office again warned that it would take "all practical steps" to block Iranian oil sales. But under pressure from the U.S., the British might lift the embargo...
Last July when Egypt's Naguib led a revolt against his government's corruption, Lebanese wondered whether their country was not ripe for similar treatment. Two weeks ago 'Premier Sami el Solh turned on his boss in the most violent speech ever heard in the Chamber, then quit...
...Curious Druggist. At World War I's end, the New York Times's Washington pundit, Arthur Krock, persuaded his friend Sullivan that the time was ripe for a Washington political column. Sullivan tried the New York Evening Post before he finally settled down with the Herald Tribune (then the Tribune...
Since war's end, the U.S. has learned to build houses with the same mass-production hustle with which it pops out cars and toasters. All the conditions were ripe for the postwar revolution in housing. There was the huge pent-up demand of the war, plus the requirements of more than twelve million marriages, 21 million babies in the last seven years. The money to build was also there; savings were at an alltime high and the Federal Government's easy credit permitted an ex-G.I. to buy a $10,000 house with no down payment...
Social Labyrinth. Angela Madison is the natural leader of the quartet; she is striking if not pretty, and supposed by the town, for no clear reason, to be intellectual. Ellen Terra Rook is small, squashy and ripe as a berry. Hope Stone suffers from having been born up North, but in her literal-minded way she, too, burns with the hungers of youth. Carrie Gregory, crippled by polio, cuts her way through life with her tongue. Different as they are, all agree on one thing: each is out to land Rector Barbee...