Word: overgrown
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...young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts with his chewed ears, string tail and general stigmata of mutt...
...books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that has been tenderly overgrown by young birch and honeysuckle...
...among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where the staph had not been overgrown or crowded out but had nevertheless been killed. He deduced that the mold secreted a substance that killed this breed of staphylococci, at least...
...donation beds have replaced much of the excitement and drama of the hall's earlier days. Henry Adams, in The American Scene, characterized the structure as "the great bristling brick Valhalla ... that house of honor and hospitality which ... dispenses ... laurels to the dead and dinners to the living." But overgrown ivy has largely crowded out the laurels, and the waiters now serve blue-books instead of wine jelly...
...justification. Since some shortening was obviously necessary, Castellani has reduced the part of Mercutio--usually a favorite with audiences--to a mere shadow of its former, lusty self. But it was probably the safest major slicing job he could do, especially since some critics consider the robust youth an overgrown character in the first place. At any rate, he appears only long enough to deliver a few speeches and be killed which is all the plot requires...