Word: parroting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soft days of Cambridge autumn, it’s not entirely unusual to hear birds just above the heaving and clanking of trucks on JFK Street—but this bird was not cooing at me from my window. It was as if I had literally bedded a cranky parrot, or kept a menagerie in my pillow...
...Kirkland, living through the fire door doesn’t necessarily mean living next door—Parrot Boy resided in the next entryway over, so he was just another random Housemate, one of those people you see occasionally in the dining hall, but never in the stairwell...
...Weaving among the demonstrators were dozens of young men outfitted with fake suicide belts, like those worn for "martyrdom operations" of the type radical Palestinians have carried out repeatedly against Israeli civilians. Other protesters carried placards with hate speech, some of which seemed to have been freshly painted to parrot Ahmadinejad's phrase...
...Weaving among the demonstrators were dozens of young men outfitted with fake suicide belts, like those worn for "martyrdom operations" of the type radical Palestinians have carried out repeatedly against Israeli civilians. Other protesters carried placards with hate speech, some of which seemed to have been freshly painted to parrot Ahmadinejad's phrase...
...India and Taiwan have declared they intend to make generic copies of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to be sure of having enough. And authorities elsewhere are going on alert. Romania began vaccinating poultry workers and residents of the Danube delta. Quarantine officials in the U.K. suspected an imported parrot was carrying the h5n1 virus, but it died before it could infect local birds. In Africa, so far "the problem is speculative," says the fao's Domenech, "but nobody can say there is no risk...