Word: ripeness
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Darias' most important contact was Marlene Navarro, a petite, ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt...
...older team can be too ripe," Fish said. "When you have a greener team, it means you're growing. That's the fun of it this year-we're growing...
...Spielberg's Jurassic Park came as a relief to her colleagues. In her capacity as TIME's head science researcher, she has sent many an overhyped nonstory to extinction. "Andrea serves as a kind of litmus test," says senior editor Claudia Wallis, who first suggested the time might be ripe for a reappraisal of dinosaurs. "She's constitutionally incapable of exaggeration." Adds another editor, Charles Alexander: "She has a scientist's skepticism...
After losing its top five players from one of the best men's tennis teams ever, squads around the region thought Harvard would be ripe for slaughter. Instead, the Crimson has turned to its younger players...
Those who remember Boston University President John Silber's gubernatorial run in 1990 will recall that he too mentioned the necessary consideration of limiting Medicare funds at a given point. His metaphor of apples being ripe for picking did not go over well when Bill Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber...