Word: ostriches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press and by its leading groups and figures. In contrast, the "voices of reason and moderation" were rarely heard in New Orleans because the city's papers failed to "provide a forum for liberal voices." New Orleans' business and civic leaders, as well as the local papers, all "played ostrich and hoped that the problem would go away," said Galphin...
...performed by four Oxford-and Cambridge-educated Britons in their 20s, a quartet of high-IQ imps. Physically and intellectually these scholar-clowns could stock an eclectic aviary. Alan Bennett, a blond horn-rimmed owl, lectures on medieval history at Oxford. Jonathan Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
Tribesmen clad in leopard skins and ostrich plumes danced to the sound of rawhide drums and blaring trumpets of antelope horn. From a thousand hilltops bonfires burst into flame. In the capital city of Kampala strings of electric lights illumined the facades of churches, mosques and Hindu temples. Thus Uganda this week became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia...
...evidently there is no escaping American bureaucratese. The Peking Review's advertisements for Flyin-Pigeon bicycles and Ostrich brand ink both speak of "finalizing" orders...
...Legislature's education committee again supported the bill. Rep. Gerard F. Doherty (D-Charlestown), House chairman of the committee, said those who opposed the bill favored the course "of an ostrich with its head stuck in the sands of ignorance...