Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorry we don't have a 'none of the above' category on the ballot. It's a shame that such a big country as ours has nothing better to offer." She shakes her head. "We're crying for leadership. We're like a bunch of children. We're ripe for someone like Hitler--and that really scares...
...walking along in the changing-time,' said Doc. 'Any day now the change will come. It's going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog that's ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Come one of these nights and we can wander down here and tree a nice possum. Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Hickory tree there will be yellow. Sweetgum red, hickory yellow ...' He went along rapping the tree trunks with his knuckle. 'Magnolia...
...receptionists, secretaries and charwomen than as makers of policy." Said the Boston Globe: "When a young woman makes good, her colleagues get suspicious... they make excuses: sex favoritism, affirmative action, window dressing." Pulitzer-prize-winning Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman found the Mary and Bill show to be "absolutely ripe with hostility toward uppity women." Asked Goodman: "If women can sleep their way to the top, why aren't they there...
Just as District 65 has a right to conduct a campaign for recognition, the administration has a right to try to block the attempt. But today, with District 65 more experienced after its first unsuccessful drive to unionize the employees, the time seems ripe for a union victory. Because the initial effort was defeated by only 50 swing votes in 1977 after a three-year battle in which both sides pulled out all the stops, the vigorous campaign being conducted by District 65 should rally worker sentiment behind the union. District 65 will probably file for the right to hold...
...exported to the lunatic fringe of whatever society he sought to live in. Feverish, volcanic, he would appear to be emotionally out of this world, existing in something very close to a social vacuum, in which his personal or political cause may mature and fester until it is both ripe and rotten for some terrible act. Love and respect are probably beyond his reach; he merely wishes to be noticed. If society should notice him by putting him away, his dreams would be both dead and complete...