Word: surfeited
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...approve its extermination,” read The Crimson. The new UC, however, was created specifically to address areas where the old body had been lacking. It had official recognition, it had funding, it had the responsibility to disperse funds, and—with Fainsod’s old surfeit of committees having been reconstituted, cut down, or eliminated—it was meant to be efficient...
...More likely, Chai's book suffers from a surfeit of coming-of-age memoirs by Asian Americans, as well as a blessed obsolescence: China's diaspora has largely fared well in the U.S. since Chai was a girl. Her father even tells her, "There's no such thing as racism against Chinese. You just don't know how to get along with people...
...swimming phenoms—but both college football and college basketball have somewhat resisted the urge to uncover the Fountain of Youth.Globally, the best soccer players are hunted out well before they are old enough to worry about going to college. Brazil provides the best example, with its surfeit of young talent that crops up every four years, but even England reveals its newly minted teenage prodigy at every World Cup.The world’s best swimmers, gymnasts, runners, and baseball players almost all join the professional ranks as adolescents.By the time they’re 20, many of them...
...Getting the marriage between campaign and blogger right is probably more important for Edwards than for any other Democratic candidate. The former vice-presidential candidate is moving hard to the left to differentiate himself from Clinton and Obama ahead of next year's primary contests. The blogosphere, with its surfeit of Democratic base voters, is a natural target audience: almost a third of the estimated 5 million daily political blog readers identified themselves as strongly liberal in a George Washington University study published last October...
...Hill's surfeit of former cheerleaders, student body presidents and most popular classmates can give the place an eerie, permanent-postgrad feel - a kind of constantly renewed high school scene unfolding amid all the power and prestige of the Capitol. That's especially true on the first day of a new Congress, and today, amid the pomp and revelry of the Democratic takeover, a hundred minor dramas brought it all back...