Word: parrot
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...told a story from when he was “a young, naughty Dalai Lama” and enviously watched his teacher feed and pet a parrot...
Hoping to attain the same kind of affection from the parrot, he grabbed some seeds to feed the bird...
...parrot took very aggressively, and when I tried to touch, [he began] biting,” he explained. So the 10-year-old Dalai Lama took a small stick and hit the bird, he said, and the prospect of friendship between the Dalai Lama and the parrot was over...
Each aspect of Pirates shows care and brio. An early sword fight, full of seesaws and somersaults, displays a burly, balletic grace. There's a fine cast of supporting scoundrels, including a pirate parrot and a monkey with vampire teeth. Barbossa's ship has a haunted grandeur and, under moonlight, a timber-shivering secret to reveal...
...every time a student’s mind lights up with insight is a chance for the passion of discovery to be reborn, a chance for Harvard to train not a parrot, but a person...