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...with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: God's Last-born | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Stands for Ostrich Studio. What is an ostrich studio? An ostrich studio is a studio which believes social problems should never be taken up by movies, and there's nothing like good old entertainment, is there? Refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Heckled | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Surrealist | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Since the entrance of the Military Academy into the League, the team has never left the cellar, and this year is no exception. The Army sextet has suffered three successive defeats, and bids fair to bury its head, like an ostrich, in the depths of the circuit cellar once again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TEAMS BATTLE ON 6 FRONTS | 2/12/1943 | See Source »

...would be absolutely fatal," added the London Economist just before .the Casablanca conference, "if, for their heraldic emblem, the United Nations chose an ostrich dormant on a heap of sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Harmonies & Discords | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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