Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas, station KLIF hired a parrot (with an adenoidal Portuguese accent), whose transcribed croak announced the station's call letters between programs...
...jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian hill myna, who will outtalk a parrot any day, welcomed visitors with: "Hello, Joe! You can go to hell, too." ¶ Twenty men wearing American Legion caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience as "Progressive...
Zacharias punctuated his article with two sentences framed in Doomsday black: "A single milliliter† of the highly infectious psittacosis [parrot fever] virus could kill 20 million men. This virus can be produced cheaply in bulk by a small laboratory anywhere in the world...
There remained only a faint possibility of compromise with the Russians. Paris had been the last chance for One Europe (a U.S. reporter had dubbed the Parrot Salon, where the Ministers met, the "Last Chance Saloon"). For those nations which wanted to take part, the U.S. could push the Marshall Plan ahead without Russia. Eastern European nations would be forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile...
...said. The killer, shaken with remorse, sank to his knees on the kitchen floor. "Darling," he sobbed, "I loved you. I always loved you." He gathered the "limp little body" in his arms, caressed it, "covered it with kisses." It was too late for kisses. Napoleon, the Murphy family parrot, was dead...