Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complete with bevies of poorly rehearsed dancing maids, Wagnorian men-at-arms, and overgrown temple ruins, "Cobra Women" lacked none of the usual touches which characterize this sort of fare...
...They [Americans] are really a very friendly people despite the apparent ferocity of their handshakes and their violent backslapping. They mean well. Remember their civilization is much younger than that of Europe and Asia. They are just great big overgrown children at heart and should be treated as such...
Bulgaria is a peasant country, whose capital, Sofia, has been called an overgrown village. Bulgarians for the most part are pro-Russian by tradition, provincial by nature, pro-German by decree of persistently pro-German governments. They like Americans (but have had few dealings with them), consider Britain anti-Bulgar. They fear and hate the Turks, who ruled them for five centuries. They think that they have a right to keep lands snatched from Yugoslavia and Greece, but do not want to fight for these territories. In World War II they have found little profit, much distress...
Through Arawe's coconut groves the Japs had cut a runway now unused and overgrown by tropical bush. Arawe's harbor served as a barge-staging point for supplies to Jap centers on New Britain's south coast. In American hands Arawe would sever one enemy line of communication, would provide a jumping-off place for the next Allied amphibious advance. Most important, it would turn an idle airstrip into a forward base against Rabaul...
...worldly Brendan Bracken, who impressed his listeners by his knowledge of what not to say as well as by what he said, made one tactless slip. Calling onetime No. 2 Nazi Rudolf Hess "a perfect nitwit," he added that he was "an overgrown Boy Scout." Boy Scouts did not like that, and British Boy Scouts formally told...