Word: ripely
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Professors repeatedly cited the timing of the University’s ambitious plans for expansion into Allston as an area ripe for cutbacks...
...ability to influence pretty much any industry he touches - along with his apparent obsession with being rich and famous - has made him ripe for parody as a pushy, arrogant, no-holds-barred executive...
Beck defined a “cosmopolitan moment” as a moment when certain risks are so extreme that the “state of normalcy and the state of emergency overlap” and the time is ripe for transnational collaboration...
...this too strikes me as a relatively weak attempt to create realism.Even though House holds a cane and is addicted to Vicodin, he still isn’t as old or insane as he would need to be to have completed so many specialty courses in medical school. A ripe, obnoxiously saucy bachelor at middle age, House is somehow a cardiologist, epidemiologist, radiologist, neurologist, orthopedic surgeon, dermatologist, endocrinologist, pulmonologist, gynecologist, and psychiatrist, in addition to being versed in a few other specialties, sprinkled in for good measure. There is no other way to put it; the show is completely unrealistic...
...radio, long-time local right-wing talker Jim Quinn is playing an Eisenhower era tape of an American politician warning about Soviet influence: "'We'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism... we'll so weaken your economy that you'll fall like ripe fruit...'" Quinn says, "We almost had that during the Carter administration." Then he plays an Obama line. "This guy sounds more like Stalin than he sounds like George Washington," Quinn says. "Do you realize t his guy raised $600 million? Do you really think all of that came from American citizens?" Hearing the talk...