Word: ostrichized
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...Hitler gets little thanks these days. I, for one, send him mine for having forced a very determined old ostrich at last to withdraw his head from the sand...
...America closed its eyes in neglecting the army and navy," said the law professor in comparing the United States actions to these of an ostrich. "By means of the Neutrality Act, Congress sought to prevent our country from becoming over-excited in foreign affairs...
...long from their tantrums. We have blushed for shame when they acted up before company as tantrum children will do in any family. Years ago they established the crank school of economics ; latterly they have founded the tirade school of journalism; they are now en gaged in popularizing the ostrich school of strategy...
...believe it will "promote the happiness and well-beings" of the American people if we blindly run the risk of disaster. With the example of the European democracies before us, will our educated youth continue to keep their heads in the sand? Even the ostrich doesn't do that...
...Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant...