Word: ripened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussions. There was no saying how long discussions would take. In Damascus, Arabs hinted that they would strike while U.N. was still talking, and along Palestine's coastal plain, Jewish citrus exporters saw confirming activity: Arab growers were unseasonably shipping out oranges of a type which will not ripen until April...
...objective race against Yale and Princeton, the Crimson has surprised nobody. The team has lost to M.I.T., Rhode Island State, Boston University and Dartmouth while scraping past un undermanned Holy Cross squad by five points. Unlike the horse-chestsnuts, the Varsity cross country team never had a chance to ripen...
...says the County Agricultural Committee can prosecute a farmer for disobeying cropping "advice," as it is called. The Committee might have ordered Farmer Dennis to plow in his buckwheat while it was green. But time passed and the Committee did nothing. Instead it let the buckwheat ripen. Then it acted. Obviously the Committee had bungled. From the depths of official seclusion, Committee Secretary Roger Sayce sent out a message: "Mr. Sayce has nothing to say about buckwheat-nothing whatever...
...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
Most of the cargo would have to ripen before being sold. Then it will go to under-18s only; adults must wait for the next shipload from Jamaica...