Word: ripen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barked a processional, Folk Singer Judy Collins sang Leonard Cohen's Suzanne ("She's touched your perfect body with her mind"). Arlo's mother read a poem that Woody, who died in 1967, had written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness ripen as a yellow sweet fruit and the radiance of your thinking invigorate the world." After the ceremony and a kiss, Arlo led the entire wedding party of 150 in his favorite hymn, Amazing Grace-How Sweet the Sound. Then everybody lined up to kiss the bride, who may have silently...
...extremists want that? Some do. In their view, it would ripen the U.S. for revolution. And yet the university is one of the best possible bases from which sane radicals can expect to mount sizable political support in the U.S. Only the campus is ideally equipped to analyze or attack poverty and pollution, to appeal to the ghetto as well as suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming...
...evil. The famous Nurnberg Chronicle of 1493 predicted: "Conditions will be so terrible that no man will be able to lead a decent life. Then will all the sorrows of the Apocalypse pour down upon mankind: Flood, Earthquake, Pestilence and Famine; neither shall the crops grow nor the fruits ripen; the wells will dry up and the waters will bear upon them blood and bitterness, so that the birds of the air, the beasts in the field, and the fishes in the sea will all perish...
Compounding the confusion, marijuana itself is an inexact term. All marijuana comes from the female hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, which grows worldwide. As the plants ripen, their flower and seed heads exude a resin that contains the highest natural concentration of active cannabis chemicals. The pure resin is hashish, a combination of powerful chemicals. Hashish, by Giordano's own testimony, rarely reaches...
...Ling, that seemed to ripen a prospect he had been watching for more than three years. In the military argot current at his Dallas headquarters, Allis-Chalmers had long been targeted as "Company X." Ling liked the way Allis-Chalmers products were "tied to the growth of the economy." The company also has a classic vulnerability to takeover attempts: its officers and directors hold less than 4% of its stock, which is a very small base from which to try to fight an attractive tender offer. Ling himself was in Milwaukee for a quiet look-see in July...