Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the night, Byrd met constantly with other Senators on the floor and in his office. On Thursday morning he sensed that the moment was ripe for a compromise. "Last night did some good," he said. "Psychologically, it made us all realize we had to find a solution." The one he found was a proposal by Henry ("Scoop") Jackson to raise the price ceiling to $2.03-higher than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise...
Walking out of one crowded lecture, an over-ripe freshman stated that he couldn't believe Harvard was like this. "Why, I haven't had this much fun since summer camp eight years ago," he said...
Above all, Israel is worried about returning to Geneva before the time is ripe, on the ground that rising expectations followed by dramatic failure could lead to war. Although the government denies it, Israel would also like more time to create "new facts." Since the Six-Day War, the country has been establishing permanent Israeli settlements on occupied Arab land as the perimeters of a future boundary that would be permanently defensible. Last week, even as peace discussions proceeded, the government announced plans for another 100 such settlements. Because it takes time to establish these "new facts," Israel...
...Here is a hero," Nietzsche wrote many years earlier, "who did nothing but shake the tree when the fruit was ripe. But just look at the tree he shook!" The significance of Lindbergh was as complicated as his personality. His exploit, proclaimed precisely because he achieved it alone, served to promote a new age of aviation technology in which men and women would be increasingly absorbed into teams, into bureaucracies. Lindbergh rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even...
...that the world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...