Word: ingrownness
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Wheelwright's verse makes hard, sometimes impenetrable, reading. His somewhat pampered, ingrown learning keeps cropping out in it like rocks in a hill field. Fortunately, he had the equipment of a nature poet, in a land where freedom is in the air rather than in books. His landscapes can be just right...
American colleges, Harvard not excepted are typically pictured as being sheltered Emug and ingrown...
...National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...
...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
...still an open question whether the University errs in the way it admits students, but, layman or educator, no one can doubt that the ingrown attitude towards teachers who resign or are dismissed sometimes makes Harvard appear in the wrong...