Word: ripening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, fruit does not ripen everywhere at the same moment. It is unreasonable to treat, for example, Viet Nam, a land with an old civilization, and a group of mountain tribes from Laos or Africa, still only partly emerged from primitive savageness, in the same way. By wanting to shake off guardianship too quickly-assuming that this guardian is honest and not a tyrant-a population risks falling into anarchy. But to want to hold out in spite of all opposition, faced with a native elite reasonably capable of taking the reins of authority, the colonial power runs the risk...
...Fourth brother Frank, a mathematician, all-round athlete, footballer and rifle shot. "Lovable, affectionate, happy and gentle." Frank had no time to ripen for anything but slaughter. In a letter marked "Not to be delivered till after my death," Frank bade his parents a cheerful farewell -"the parting will not be for long. Merely for an infinitesimal space of time out of eternity." He was killed at 22, three months after joining the Gloucester Regiment at the front in France...
...Administration's action this week that more and more people of ability will base their future job decisions on such reasoning. Another consequence is, as the seven diplomats said, an unwillingness among those who remain to say anything out of the ordinary--an unwillingness which with time will ripen into an inability. Whether this attrition of intelligence is carried out the quiet way, through "hard" security policies run by Scott McCleods, or the McCarthy way, through shotgun charges and noise, the result is the same...
...they keep on writing it? Furtwängler: "It cannot be denied that modern man finds in this music an echo of his own feelings . . . Atonal music expresses something of the enigmatic times in which we live." What will the upshot be? Furtwängler: "We must let matters ripen . . . The final decision will rest with human nature...
That was only the first mild spring Saturday evening. There will be more. The tension will ripen with the weather, and it will not be surprising to discover some day that a group of have-nots has overturned a convertible, beaten its male occupants and ravished the women...