Word: ripened
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...face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees, her thighs and her feet. She lay with shut eyes, the colour of rosy flame through her lids ... She reached and put leaves over her eyes. Then she lay again, like a long white gourd in the sun, that must ripen to gold ... She was beginning to feel warm right through. Turning over, she let her shoulders dissolve in the sun, her loins, the backs of her thighs, even her heels. And she lay half stunned ... (page...
...given farmers a bigger share of the consumer's dollar. For years A & P had carefully cultivated their good will in other ways. It spent millions showing them how to get better prices by improving the quality of their products. It persuaded them to let peaches ripen on the trees before picking; to pick fresh corn before dawn and get it to A & P stores the same day; to crossbreed chickens in a way to produce more white meat (the "Chicken of Tomorrow" -a breed with a huge breast, tiny legs and wings). Many a labor union also supported...
...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...