Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though he spends much of his service playing cards with generals, he is surprised that his fellow prisoners view war as a chore, rather than a "sacred crusade...
...shattering of the American dream makes many Americans ripe for ultra-nationalism. Economic crises usually bring extreme political polarization as individuals are desperate to find a way out of the mass in which they find themselves and their country. We can not let a major plank of the war buildup ride through uncontested and hope people conclude that militarism is not right. Again, this is why fighting the draft now, explaining the essence of U.S. foreign policy, and pointing out the causes of poverty are the best ways to achieve true democracy, peace and equality...
...Hearst's New York Sunday Mirror. With unemployment still climbing and much of the banking system shut down, there was indeed a widespread sense that the American political system was getting its last chance. "The biggest and finest crop of little revolutions I ever saw is ripe all over this country right now," a Farmers' Union leader testified before a Senate committee. Conservatives were no less apocalyptic. "Even the iron hand of a national dictator is in preference to a paralytic stroke," said Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "If this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs...
...that the growing discontent of fundamentalist, right-wing clergymen with Khomeini's policies, together with what he called the "CIA-backed leftists" of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (People's Crusaders), had brought Iran to the brink of a civil war. Vinogradov told Mousavi that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign-led subversion...
...from which the Beatles appropriately sprang) were an era of fine, ripe exaggeration-all of that bright, angry, lulu rhetoric parading in costume across the counterculture and the war zone,en route to conciouseness III. America was amerika. the young were "freaks", the police were "pigs" a hundred different chemical substances were on hand to perform radical exaggerations in the brain. The 80's seem to be taking a preppier line with reality; certain voices run to understatement now. Still, a great deal of exaggeration has been built into the culture and, of course, the traditional home of exaggeration...