Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even cynical times. Schlesinger believes that the activist cycle comes around every 30 years or so. Thus the era of Teddy Roosevelt at the turn of the century, then the New Deal beginning in 1933, then Kennedy in 1961. By Schlesinger's hopeful calculation, the U.S. will be ripe for another time of idealism and political innovation toward the end of this decade...
...bodies of planes and angles. Gris' importance to modern art rests on about ten years of productivity. His work weakened into phlegmatic décor in the '20s, and by 1927, at 40, he was dead of uremia, the only major cubist not to live to a ripe...
...change is as much one of style a substance. Julia Child may shop at Sage's, but that doesn't mean it's a good place to pick up a gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork...
...dogged security man had had enough. He not only retrieved the orange post, but chased the quadruped toward the Harvard sideline. And for a few minutes, that was that. But after a couple of incomplete passes and several insignificant running plays, our creature decided the time was ripe for a reappearance...
...Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe...