Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landowner who has the power to decide who works and for how much. The men, women and children who work in the fields and groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions are ripe and they leave at the end of the harvest. Because they are constantly on the move, migrant children receive inadequate, often fragmented educations. Homeless, helpless and poor, the migrant worker provides the back-breaking labor needed to harvest much of the food on America's tables...
...School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
...orchards throughout New England, the Mclntosh, Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made...
...that we may judge what went wrong. The film's approach to its subject is often imaginative?particularly by the standards of conventional nonfiction movies. In addition to the expectable interviews with Lowry's surviving relatives and friends, Volcano fills out its subject's life and writing with ripe color photography of Cuernavaca's raunchy bars, Cambridge University's student haunts and Times
...many ways a freshman is ripe for the picking. Any hawker worth his salt at registration can tell you that a freshman will sign up for or buy anything. For protection the freshman is provided with a surfeit of advisers and information sources. But how does he choose between proctor, senior adviser, academic adviser, Bureau of Study Counsel, Room 13, freshman dean, OCS-OCL, UHS shrinks, roommates and friends? The Confi Guide and Committee on Undergraduate Education guide tell him what to take and where to go. And yet he'll still have to learn by experience that...