Word: overgrown
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...they enter. Bing offers advice on the care and feeding of such corporate pachyderms, but, more important, he tells you how not to get trampled. Drain yourself of all hope, he says. Don't expect anything--especially kindness. And never, ever, criticize. The elephant, you see, is really an overgrown toddler who still thinks the world revolves around it. Elephants know a great deal about a great many things, says Bing, but nothing about human feelings. Especially yours, the faithful retainer. So listen to the wisdom and the many jokes of Buddha Bing (ba-da-boom!), and always, always...
...table, we're gong to see a return of the "back-alley butchers" made infamous during the court battles leading up to Roe. Women will die - women whose lives might have been saved by sane, realistic abortion laws that treat women like grown-ups, rather than as overgrown wards of the state...
...that "the Arab street has, for all intents and purposes, been quiet." His office has tallied the number of demonstrations in the Arab world since the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan; there were nine that first week and only a few afterward. That maddened street now seems more like an overgrown footpath...
...common place occurrences. The passive and directionless narrator of each story lacks any roots or real home. He is a loner whose life is dictated by chance and who passively allows fate to govern his existence. A motley collection of three-legged dogs, mutated puppies, deformed human beings, psychopaths, overgrown slugs, drug addicts, women who practice black magic and dangerous roommates move in and out of his life, creating mayhem. Yet through it all the narrator remains unflappable...
...million years ago, the landscape here was very different. The same tectonic forces that racked the region with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions had also thrust the land up as much as a mile higher than it is today. As a result, the area was cooler and wetter and overgrown with trees, bushes and patches of grass. These fertile woodlands were rich in wildlife. Primitive elephants, giant bears, horses, rhinos, pigs, rats and monkeys lived here, along with dozens of other mammal species long since extinct...