Word: overgrown
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...Forces spilled out of their barracks, speeding toward their assigned tanks. Engines roared to life, maps were unfurled, and within minutes two full tank brigades were rolling out. The armored leviathans rumbled to the Syrian front and onto ramps built long ago as battle stations, many of which were overgrown with weeds from disuse. Once there, the troops parked and waited, peering anxiously into the night for the Syrian attackers...
...spending too many hours yelling at spoiled teenagers from the suburbs. Still, this is a common enough concern. Robert Bly, for one, has written of the dangers of living in a world without active rites of passage. According to such thinkers, we live in a world of manchildren, of overgrown high-chair tyrants...
...marine scientists conducted an experiment off the coast of Belize that proves this point. To keep fish out, the researchers surrounded a section of coral the size of a small pasture with a chicken-wire fence. Within 10 weeks, they found, the area inside the fence had been completely overgrown by seaweed and many of the corals had died...
...remember the first shirt I acquired in college. The black ink on white fabric design that commemorated a week of sweating and cutting weeds in an overgrown lot in Roxbury gave an auspicious start to my collection...
...state, there's a huge disparity in federal Medicaid spending. New York and Washington, for example, collect an average of $2,000 per poor person, while in Idaho and Kansas it's about $500. With that much federal money running through the system, some states have helped create an overgrown health-care industry and health-care bureaucracy, both of which could stand some pruning. Other states have whole departments devoted to scamming more Medicaid money from the Federal Government. And when it comes to services, some optional benefits, like adult dental care or eyeglasses, might be trimmed on the theory...