Word: ripening
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...woman's system would normally be building up hormones to promote ovulation, she takes the first of her progestin pills, and she takes one daily for the next 20 or 21 days. By some biochemical magic not yet understood, the progestin makes it impossible for a follicle to ripen and spill out an ovum. It also prepares the lining of the uterus for menstruation. By the 25th or 26th day, when all chance of ovulation, and therefore of conception, during that cycle has passed, the woman stops taking her pills. Within two or three days...
...York City, three years in Boston, over 2½ years in Honolulu or Detroit. Courts in Los Angeles have held the delay to less than two years. In Miami the wait is less than six months-an interval many lawyers consider too short to allow the medical evidence to "ripen." But in Chicago, at the other extreme, the traffic jam is backed up for a staggering 5½ years...
When-and if-the potatoes ripen, the Indians will eat some of them fresh, save others for seed, and turn the rest into chuño. Chuño-making begins when the temperature at night falls below freezing. Potatoes are left out to freeze, then thaw when the sun rises. Barefoot Indians tread out the moisture, leave the potatoes to freeze again, tread some more. After a fortnight they have chuño-a dehydrated potato that, with luck, will last all winter...
...Pfiffe. For all Blick's growing popularity, many readers remain furtive and embarrassed. The papers they are used to are unexcitable, reflective, slow-moving and often a little dull. Agence Télégraphique Suisse, the national wire service, sometimes stews over stories for days, letting them ripen before release-and no client complains. The news can wai: it is best to be sure. The philosophy is one with which Blick could hardly agree less...
After the end of the world, the lovers emerge from the mausoleum to find a universe cleansed. "The hour will come when you will ripen and burst, and we shall harvest the fruits of our love," the young man says. "A trace of us will remain, etched in flesh, and nothing more eternal will ever be built more proudly or more boldly than the flesh of our flesh perfumed with...