Word: overgrown
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...Overgrown Igloos. If there was any immediate benefit from the Russian stroll in space, it was the promise that in its urge to catch up, Congress would almost surely loosen the purse strings that have been tightening on the U.S. astronautical budget. And the availability of money has always been a measure of the Cape's success. After a disheartening failure, the answer has usually been: Tear down the old gantry. Toss out the old design. Build a new rocket. Hang the expense. Get the job done...
...soared to $1.75 billion, the U.S. has covered the sandy bulge of the waist of Florida with an architectural fantasy that began with the now familiar pattern of old Cape Kennedy proper: the bending, baking shoreline, the line of steel launching towers covered with red, rustproofing paint, the overgrown concrete igloos, blastproof behind 2-ft.-thick steel doors...
...aircraft workers out of jobs and strike a damaging technological blow to the nation's once proud aircraft industry. In an unguarded moment, Healey, who admires tough, cost-conscious U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, dismissed such criticism by saying it was not his job to "wetnurse overgrown and mentally retarded children in the domestic economy...
...taken in by this sort of House Beautiful rubbish and still have given birth to such mental giants as we. Adult women simply do not run about forever selecting bright-colored serapes for wall hangings. As for rejection of husband and home as part of an overgrown suffragette movement, well, even Radcliffe girls have glands. (Mrs.) Maria Revesz Eigerman...
...play is densely overgrown with metaphors and allusions. Pinter cultivates a whole thicket of symbolic references to vision, light, and self-knowledge: Edward's eyes hurt; the matchseller seems blind; the day is the longest in the year; Edward prefers the darkness of the house to the sunlight; and so on. Trying to chart this jungle would be a presumptuous sort of auto-analysis from which I will excuse myself--anyone who sees A Slight Ache should read the play and attack it with his own interpretive machete. And that "any-one" should be everyone who appreciates soundly produced modern...