Word: ripen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blackwelder Manufacturing Co., it enables one harvester and 13 other workers to do the work now done by 60 men. Like many another invention, it has already led to a further development: a new breed of tomatoes, with tougher skins to prevent damage from the machine and that ripen all at the same time. ¶"Cookies" for cows. International Harvester's hay pelletizer makes wafers from hay as it is mowed in the field. The wafers cut a farmer's loading and storage costs, lend themselves easily to automatic feeding in barns...
...from Communist tactics. It was in keeping with Leninist tactics that, following his threat-shouting, table-pounding press conference in Paris, he flew on to East Berlin and, as the reasonable man of peace, soberly told East German Reds that he was going to let the Berlin situation "ripen" for six or eight months-until after the U.S. presidential election...
...announcement of his long-threatened, long-promised treaty with East Germany. Khrushchev told them: wait six or eight months. When this was greeted by grim silence, Khrushchev hastily interposed: "We do not let this subject out of our sight, but let's wait a bit. It will ripen better...