Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe, which is meant solely for printed matter, not handwritten letters, reads like a home remedy for a Watergate-induced headache: dissolve a milk of magnesia tablet in a quart of club soda and chill the solution overnight. Then pour it into a pan or tray large...
Gertraude Schroder, a secretary in the Physics Department and spokesman for the group, said during the summer that the time is "very ripe" for an office and clerical union at Harvard, but that the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee will probably wait one or two years before trying to hold a union-forming vote here...
...ripe with innocence. He is old enough to have savored love and father hood but still too young for the restlessness and self-recrimination that often accompany the onset of middle age. It is difficult to think of rebellious cells fanning out through his body, turning his blood to water. For Sandy, whose life suddenly becomes a ritual of babysitting arrangements and hospital visits, death infiltrates past the eggshell phrases of doctors, through false hopes, the increasingly embarrassed concern of neighbors, and even such things as her sudden piercing awareness that there is less laundry...
...small portable desk in the back seat, and as he rode over the Potomac River and up the Mall, looked over his notes on what he would say in a couple of hours. Sixty years ago, Burger was a boy in St. Paul whose special summer joy was eating ripe tomatoes off the vine in the family garden. On Wednesday, he read the court decision that put the most powerful man in the world back under law and the will of the people...
...grains for one thing. "They have plenty of chlorophyll that cleanses the blood and makes the body smell pure. There is no odor to my sweat." After breakfasting on dried and crumbled whole-grain bread kneaded with carrot juice and topped with rice polish, lecithin, yogurt and a tiny ripe banana, Gloria sometimes skips around the house. "I'm a regular hausfrau, but I still need more exercise." Gloria plans to buy a treadmill. To display what her way of life has done for her in 50 years, Gloria obligingly posed for a photographer in exactly the same...