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Word: ripest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Clearly, we cannot permit the other nations of the world to be picked off one at a time with the weakest and ripest falling first," he said in a radio broadcast. "But if, following Korea, the Kremlin directs an attack of the Chinese Communists down into Indo-China or into Burma, or of the Bulgarian Communists into Greece or into Turkey, or of the East German and Polish Communists into Western Germany . . . and if the U.S. attempts to meet each of those aggressions where they occur ... we will become a giant pinned to the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Ultimatum Itch | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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