Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inept administrator, a corrosive buttinsky on the set, a compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to die of malnutrition, ruined the careers of two Yugoslav bureaucrats when he conned state funds out of them, welshed on everything from actors' salaries to florists' bills. Finally finished, the film was uneditable...
...local accommodation between Viet Cong and government commanders-the Delta war has long been yielding up to a fourth of the enemy's losses each month. And the enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers of the main force So Trang battalion, once one of the Viet Cong's finest. Among them was a boy of only 14, and the average age of the 55 was 17. They had been press-ganged...
...Wilson wants guarantees that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks will eventually gain majority rule when their "achievement warrants it." Smith, who has said that "one man, one vote will not come within my life," wants the whites to have power to decide when the time is ripe. He also objects to Wilson's demand that he return legal power to the British governor to implement any agreement reached-with London. At week's end, Smith said the gap had narrowed and that "man to man" talks between him and Wilson would be useful. British officials...
...internal situation of a country is not ripe for subversion, the fall of a neighboring country--a Vietnam--is not going to topple it, he alleged...
...seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...