Word: ripening
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...been more challenging for American Administrations to deal with Likud-led governments in Israel. But I never believed that, on issues that are central to you, you can afford to wait until there is a "ripe" environment. If the issue is central, diplomacy has to work hard to ripen the environment for a deal...
...move through adolescence, your life gets so much bigger so fast; not just your hands and feet but your thoughts, temper, moods, doubts, and so all your relationships are vastly more complicated than in the days of playground tag. Melodrama comes so naturally: friendships dissolve into feuds, rivalries ripen, parents are useless, nothing goes according to plan, temptation is everywhere. These stories throw all that normal teenage drama into such high relief that the picture is suddenly clearer. The stakes in Edward and Bella's world really are life or death; if things go wrong, your heart could get broken...
...Jakarta in 2003, the Australian embassy in 2004 and the second Bali bombings in 2005. "He's very good at recruiting people and getting them to commit suicide, not at making bombs," says General Pastika. The ICG, in a 2006 report on Noordin's networks, told how he would "ripen" suicide bombers or "bridegrooms" for bombings...
...Experience, in other words, gets its value from the person who has it. In certain lives, a little goes a long way. Some people grow and ripen through years of government service; others spoil on the vine. At the same time, the value that voters place on résumé is constantly shifting. James A. Baker III is an authority on this. In 1980, he managed the campaign of his well-credentialed friend George H.W. Bush, under the slogan "A President we won't have to train." But the public mood was sour on Washington, and victory went...
...place a tomato / on the windowsill / to ripen,” the poem reads. “Slowly it turns...