Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wisk detergent, in which a parrot shrieks "Ring around the collar!" at a guilt-ridden hausfrau who neglected to Wisk...
...guns and pulled the lanyards one by one. Republican National Chairman Bob Dole warned that Muskie's speech announcing' his plan "may have greatly damaged the prospects for peace in Viet Nam." Herb Klein, the White House communications director, charged that some of the Democrats "seem to parrot Hanoi's line." Repeating a joke he had heard at a Washington Republican fund-raising dinner, Attorney General John Mitchell declared that Muskie was following a Northern strategy -North Viet Nam's, that is. Vice President Agnew said in a TV interview taped for this week: "There...
...group, however, including the Idler, Back Room, Blue Parrot, the coffeehouses and Ferdinand's restaurant is having a meeting next week to discuss returning to the group's former practice of employing a uniformed police detail every day of the week. Last year, they modified the policy. The policeman now patrols only on the weekend nights, according to Viktor A. Imhof, manager of the Idler and the Back Room Coffeehouses...
...Swanson simply has not read my work and like a parrot repeats third hand some ill-informed allegations. In my many writings on post-industrial society. I have never said that the issues of the society were purely technical, but while describing the technocratic drift of the society and the new class structures that have been emerging. I have always said that the basic decisions would be political. Daniel Bell
...equates the seriousness of the crime with the profit it yields to the criminal. Armed robbery is a serious felony whether the robber nets $1 or a million dollars. The Panthers and their parrot-minded white liberal-running dogs should not feel they have lost an irreplaceable hero with Jackson's death...