Word: ripen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhubarbs that these rules can cause are beginning to ripen. Batters and managers have sounded off bitterly; the big rush, says Chicago White Sox Manager Al Lopez, gives pitchers a dangerous opportunity for quick pitches that will catch batters unaware. Says Lopez: "Someone's going to get killed if they enforce the stepping-out-of-the-box rule...
...move was a lifesaver, for success had made Rossby increasingly individualistic. He was a wonderfully stimulating teacher, an inspiring leader, and he produced ideas at a fantastic rate, but he was also a poor manager. He hardly ever answered mail. Instead, he stacked unopened letters in a pile to ripen. When they were so old that their writers no longer hoped for an answer, he felt it would do no harm to throw them away. He cut classes, was usually stony broke, ignored university budget restrictions. Sometimes he would ring furiously for his secretary when he was already dictating...
...land of 80% illiteracy, $84-per-capita income and endemic trachoma, bilharziasis and malaria, stands on the threshold of economic expansion. It took courage to concentrate on long-term investments when demagogues demanded relief here and now. but the first fruits of Iraq's wisdom are beginning to ripen...
...negotiations had been friendly in tone; they had even held out hope of specific fruits which might ripen in a second Geneva conference of Big Four foreign ministers. The amicability and the hopes came to be summed up in a phrase, "the spirit of Geneva." As the foreign ministers' conference concluded last week, the Russians, on point after point, prevented any practical harvest from the July meeting...
Ever since a band of Scottish settlers discovered in 1812 that early-maturing varieties of wheat from their native highlands would grow and ripen in Manitoba's short summers, the wheat crop has made the difference between prosperity or hard times for Canada's three prairie provinces. Last week, with bins and elevators brimming from the fourth fine harvest in five years, the threat of acute financial crisis hung incongruously over the prairies. Reason: the inability of Canada's National Wheat Board to sell the accumulated surplus at a price the farmers are willing to take...