Word: ostrich
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...season before last, after the royal Celtics suffered the first four- game sweep in their play-off history, against the Milwaukee Bucks, distinguished First Substitute Kevin McHale puffed out his ostrich breast in the locker room and declared for the average player, "I can walk out of here with my head held high." But Bird spoke for himself, bitterly: "I'm gonna go back home this summer and work harder on basketball than I ever did before." Last year Boston achieved its 15th world championship, and Bird was the MVP of the tournament as well as the season...
...Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop the Q? What kind of fish are swimming in the water trapped by the upper part...
This week, though, the Head Tutor of the Biology department will appear on a children's television show with an ostrich and a llama...
Taylor will use an ostrich in order to show how scientists can determine the speed at which animals run. In the program, the ostrich will run on a treadmill and Taylor will count the number of times a mark on the track goes by, plugging the result into a formula for the bird's speed...
Similarly, "whether it's a human running, or whether it's an ostrich or a horse, if they weigh the same they'll use the same amount of energy" to run, Taylor said...