Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite a bit of business in fast motion...
...tune for Seeburg: President Delbert W. Coleman and Board Chairman Herbert J. Siegel. The corporation (fiscal 1958 sales: about $25 million) makes not only jukeboxes but most of Western Union's facsimile equipment, plus key electronic components for the Nike and Sidewinder missiles. Two years ago, at the ripe ages of 31 and 28, Coleman and Siegel got control of Seeburg with a display of financial virtuosity worthy of Cash McCall...
...ever there was a people ripe for a dictatorship, it is the American people today," playwright-novelist Gore Vidal, author of Visit to a Small Planet, said yesterday afternoon...
...first five or six years after the retreat to Formosa, the Generalissimo regularly spoke of reconquering the mainland "next year." Today it has become "soon" or "when the time is ripe." Aware of U.S. fears that a Nationalist attack on the mainland might lead to World War III, Chiang has also come to emphasize that "there is no need for a world war or for the U.S. to participate, directly...
...what street they want to live on. The hero of the latest Marquand. Playwright Tom Harrow, has been living on Easy Street for a quarter-century, and his wives with him. Now, with financial disaster an accomplished fact, his third wife, once a beautiful actress lately going a little ripe, pastes him with a shocking half-truth: "And what did I get? It's about time someone told you - a conceited, washed-out. middle-aged has-been, and not even much of a lover. My God. why didn't I see the fallacy in all the lousy plays...