Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many plants already in cultivation could be better used to increase food supplies. Spiros Constantinides of the University of Rhode Island has suggested that okra-whose viscid green pods provide the distinctive ingredient in gumbo dishes-could become an important source of protein if cooks would use its ripe seeds as well as its tasty pods. Researchers with the National Academy of Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes...
Things looked ripe for a Harvard victory in the national Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn. over the weekend...
...Trap. Then in 1965, at the age of 19, Hayley Mills shed her moppet image by moving in with British Producer Roy Boulting, a thrice-married father of seven who was 33 years her senior. Five years later, the couple were married, and Mills bore a son. Now a ripe old 30, Hayley has come a long way indeed from her Disney days. Her latest credit: she has been named the "other woman" in a divorce suit filed by the wife of British Actor Leigh Lawson, 32, whom she met last May while the pair were starring in a London...
...GRANDFATHER USED to own a lucrative cosmetics business which he founded during the Depression. His lipstick line, the keystone of the operation, sold well even in the '30s. On the cover of the package was always a ripe, peachy-faced young woman, lips moist and slightly pursed, and a slogan that read: "Keep Kissable." No one then, 'least of all my grandfather, would have considered that message unduly provocative. "Keep Kissable" meant more or less what it said...
...imperialism of a more basic sort as well. Alan has always assumed that learning and modernity are good things, and his most straight-forward and untainted Peace Corps sort of mission is to spread them to less advanced people like the Xixi. The tribe seems to be ripe for this kind of thing--it spends its time in meaningless rituals, many of them involving animal dung, and suffers from high disease rates. But the Xixi are also happy, and they resist all of Alan's attempts to civilize them; indeed, their ultimate destruction is due not to any inherent flaw...