Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political climate in the USSR is ripe for a confession. Criticism of Stalin and Russia's past mistakes is now chic. Adding another item to Stalin's list of atrocities is unlikely to provoke a conservative reaction, especially when the defense is so untenable. And with the recent Soviet acceptance of the binding decisions of the World Court, including its 1948 condemnation of genocide, Moscow's confession would be timely...
Back in 1984, a furor arose after a club newsletter that described women as "pigs" and a "bevy of slobbering bovines ripe for the slaughter" surfaced. The letter encouraged men at the party to "slice into one of these meaty but grateful heffers [sic]." Although club members called the letter a parody at the time, President Derek C. Bok and other University officials formally condemned the club...
...surprising that until now, there had never been a full biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Widely considered one of the greatest justices ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes wrote more than 2000 opinions for the court and lived until the ripe...
...Britons have been regaled with mock letters like this from Denis Thatcher, the husband of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to his mythical chum Bill in the satirical London magazine Private Eye. The pungent missives are all the more outrageous as they seem to capture Denis' views and ripe turn of phrase with uncanny accuracy...
Some observers from within FAS said that the Summer School's financial standing, combined with its steadily increasing enrollments made the time ripe for an intensive self-evaluation on the part of the program. They also predicted serious discussion in the Faculty Council of the Summer School's role within the University...