Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the television broadcast of "Boheme" brought to us straight from the artistic stage of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Now that the country is high on an opera binge (where else in the world can a prima donna double as a talk show host?) the time seems ripe to put the latter of these two opera giants in its proper place. Like much else of him, his reputation is far overblown...
...said his visit to China in 1942 convinced him the country was ripe for a Communist takeover although most Americans at the time thought of it as "a place where you could go on vacation," that "could only be taken away from the U.S. by a dastardly plot...
Sensing that the time was ripe for action in the Bay State last winter, Oteri assumed responsibility for directing NORML's lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill. The decriminalization issue had benefited from a recent Oteri test case on cocaine. In a Roxbury Court last fall, Judge Elwood McKinney ruled that cocaine prohibition in its present form was unconstitutional. According to some observes, the cocaine controversy has drawn attention away from decriminalization, giving both politicians and drug-oriented interest groups more room in which to maneuver...
...Leeds and Matt Doyle, 7-5, 6-3. The Elis now trailed, 4-3, and it appeared as if the early Yale lead had been a fluke. The Harvard tennis bandwagon, temporarily slowed, was once again rolling, and the Crimson's fourth league victory in as many tries seemed ripe for the plucking...
...with bit players of the '20s: drifters, grifters, autodidacts, a few nuts and bolts from the political machine. Some of the guests, Terkel remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this heady blend of populism and indignation. The political passion of his life was conceived in 1924 when Fighting Bob La Follette ran for President on the Progressive ticket. "There were two other candidates," Terkel notes, "one of whom...