Word: overgrown
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...suggestion made by the Student Council Committee on Education that the overgrown Harvard undergraduate body might with advantage be divided into groups analogous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge is worthy of serious consideration by the graduates who must have been well aware that the growth of the College during the last 25 years has been too rapid to permit satisfactory internal adjustments to keep pace...
...needs all the help it can get. During Milosevic's rule, hundreds of thousands of bright, gifted young Serbs fled the war and the poverty to start a new life somewhere else. Djelic is one of the few who has come back. Though he looks a bit like an overgrown schoolboy in a business suit, he has had a brilliant career in France and the United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard and a third from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes...
...security when she emigrated north from South Africa to Botswana nine years ago. For a while she appeared to have found just that. With her husband Justin and three children, she enjoyed a comfortable life amid the tightly knit expatriate community in an upmarket suburb of Gaborone, the overgrown village that is Botswana's capital. Bosch's days were pleasant ones, filled with school runs, shopping, socializing, decorating porcelain dolls, baking cakes...
...among trees--but more particularly, among groves, an arrangement of trees suggesting not the overgrown woods of fairy tales but instead an aesthetic convergence of like elements. Where better to chart the future of the world than in such a place of formal connection? Even the grove's center is a sudden space in the midst of growth: a clearing, a place where the air is less heavy, where one can look directly...
...teenage Aunt Sally, to a small vacation cottage (no electricity, no running water) on a backcountry farm absentee-owned by a friend of my father's. You went a mile down a dirt road crusted with crushed oyster shells until you came to the cottage. The yard was overgrown with tall grass, and if you weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. There was a ramshackle dock with many planks missing, and a skiff, from which we caught crabs by trailing...