Word: ostrichism
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Promptly on his 18th birthday, Mutesa II put on his eight-inch-high gold crown, newly rushed from London, encrusted with sapphires, fire opals and carbuncle garnets, fronted with the tall, traditional white ostrich plume. This made him ruler, under a British "agreement of non-interference," of a cotton-growing territory roughly the size of Ireland...
...government official, demonstrating the parallels between the Soviet and American governments and pointing out channels through which a world democracy can be reached. To disregard this speech and this type of thinking is to pursue our ideals with a foresight no more constructive than the traditional attitude of the ostrich...
Wendell Willkie, in & out of the Republican Party, had hammered long & hard at Isolation. He had more success out than in; a majority of G.O.P. leaders, unshaken by the lessons of World War II, held to the ostrich faith of their fathers that the U.S. must hold aloof from the outside world...
...carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live on that island?" he asked. "Yes," said the Indian. "And are you a - damned -of a -?" asked the enraged mateo "Yes," said the Indian...
...greatest nation . . . proud, triumphant and free . . ." Behind the speaker Vag saw the pudgy figure of the President-elect. The astounding victory of that demagogue had swept the war administration out of office and led a famous commentator to observe that America as usual was donning the ostrich feathers after playing the part of a lion...