Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with irresistible comic gusto. The general assumption among former students of his was that since he had been unable to emigrate, he must have perished in a concentration camp. To the surprise of all of us, he survived World War II and was able to live to a ripe old age. The seemingly incredible, but actually true, explanation was that for a number of years Dr. L. had been hidden, at incalculable risk to his benefactor's own life, in the house belonging to a fellow teacher who, often jack-booted and swaggering about in Brown Shirt uniform, had generally...
...born monarch, King Zog, told the South African newspaper Business Day last week that he plans to launch a blitz by balloon, attaching leaflets advocating revolution to helium bags and floating them over his homeland. With the rest of Eastern Europe changing so swiftly, he said, the time is ripe for a softening of the last Stalinist holdout on the Continent...
...What it would take is a renewal of the feminist movement, this time fully involving men whose interests are every bit as much at stake," she says. "I think this could be done. The last movement made enormous changes in people's lives...[and] I think the time is ripe. I think corporations are on the verge of making these reforms...
...control. Like Reagan, he has a real sense of mission, but he is also a master of strategy and tactics, like Richard Nixon. And if you recall that Abraham Lincoln held off before freeing the slaves, and then consider how Gorbachev is astutely waiting for the time to be ripe before downgrading the party's role, you see how remarkable...