Word: ostrichized
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...ostrich egg may be considered a single living cell. Big, too, is a single nerve cell which runs along an elephant's spine. The structure of these monster cells is practically the same as a microscopic cell in a rabbit's liver, of which some 980 are required to span one inch...
...Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Lily Greatbatch, the woman who plucked a feather from the tail of a Whipsnade ostrich, beamed cheerfully at me today when I asked her why she did it. Her offense had cost her a £1 fine and 10s. costs at Leighton Buzzard, Beds, earlier...
...Have you ever seen an ostrich?' she asked me. 'Many women who see an ostrich long to snatch the feathers from its tail. Some do. some don't. I did!' she dimpled into a smile...
With Faris, Carl Raswan rode over the billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
...canny trader. Few can match Floyd Odium's record of creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned up in Manhattan as a law clerk in the famed firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. One day he prepared a contract on short notice for Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell when...