Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed...
...found nearly all the candidates plugging away at "German National Rights" as their campaign issue. The election also featured groups of uniformed bully boys which the press euphemistically called "splinten parties"; the wrapping was different but the contents were the same. U.S. students in Europe this summer heard Germans parrot the same phrase again and again: "Hitler was all right; he did us a lot of good...
...spotlight made grinding noises Mr. Ives only had to look up at it and the hall resounded with laughter. A more in formal entertainer has seldom been seen in the home of the Boston symphony. He made private jokes with the people in the front row, talked about his parrot, and explained several of his songs...
...first President, was assassinated by the Communist-led Huks* last spring. For miles the road was deserted. Stray pieces of rotting cloth and bullet-ridden luggage still mark the site of the ambush. Soldiers for our party, clutching their carbines, fanned out to survey the scene; one flushed a parrot from a high fern. "I knew three of the dead," said their lieutenant, and idly fired four rounds of ammunition at a towering lawan tree. "In memory of Mrs. Quezon and my three friends," he explained, as two orchid blossoms fluttered down...
...parrot the old story . . . about "trouble" that Collier's had with a football article in 1941 . . . I tilted at the hypocrisy of college football . . . [using] the University of Alabama as the case in point . . . Collier's conceded two insignificant errors, not in the basic facts, but in the dramatic trimmings. I conceded nothing...