Word: parroting
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...grizzled pirate with a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder will gladly tell you, even the swabbiest sailors can do very little with a weak wind at their backs...
...Richard C. Marius Prize in Expository Writing went to Haiwen Chu '02. His essay was entitled "Why Reread? Freedom, Flaubert, and a Parrot...
...quartet of cut-out third-graders in the "quiet little redneck podunk white-trash mountain town" of South Park, Colo. A bit more is at stake this time: the fate of the world. The lads see a movie starring their favorite Canadian gross-out comics, Terrance and Phillip, and parrot the naughty language. The South Park moms blame Canada, and in a trice we're war-ready. Meanwhile, Kenny (the dead one) goes to hell, where Satan and Saddam lurk. It takes a children's crusade--La Resistance--to get to the final rainbow...
...volleyball team, yelling instructions and pointing frantically from the audience, helped Micomonaco to a modest success: a riding lawnmower, a bar set and an armoire with a parrot on it. Micomonaco also won the refrigerator, along with 40 dollars worth of eggs...
...goes out for a while and comes back with two frogs and a toad, in part to show me their characteristics (one is poisonous), but mainly because he is still a kid who likes to go out and get frogs. In the morning, one of our guides spots a parrot high in a tree, a Fransemadam, so called because it spreads a scarlet frill when excited, like the gaudy costume of a French madam. I admire, take note of the bird and am ready to move on, but Mittermeier could stand under the tree for hours lost in the intellectual...