Word: ostrichism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare smile lit the stony face of South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Strydom last week. After five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood...
...trouble is not that the United States does not have a good case; but the United States too often does not present a good case. It spends its time weighing, pondering, considering; and in the meantime the opportunity for scoring a psychological victory is past. Or it plays the ostrich game; buries its head in the sand and refuses to admit anything has happened. You don't counter something with nothing; you counter something with something better. You intercept the pass and run with the opponent's ball...
...clocks, four remained; of hundreds of porcelain and crystal vases, one. Gone were the royal family photo albums, as well as the Sultan's 56 cars, trucks and buses, which the French government had sold off. Where once was a private zoo, only three gazelles and an ostrich remained. Muttered Mohammed...
...that they are too often published by employees on loan from personnel and advertising staffs who have no newspaper experience. Furthermore, they have no contact with top management, have no idea of what goes on in the president's office. Some editors, in turn, often show an ostrich-like attitude to important stories, e.g., one southern industrial editor insisted that a topic like the Guaranteed Annual Wage "did not apply" to his 60,000 C.I.O. readers. During the bitter strike by the Communications Workers of America last spring against the Southern Bell Telephone Co. in nine states, Bell...
Kenneth S. Lynn, chairman of the board of tutors in History and Literature, hailed the proposed changes, saying "History and Literature cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. It is terribly unrealistic for us to go on with a quota set nearly 25 years...