Word: parrotted
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...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...
...reality, Marilyn and Liz, with their peacock masks of off-register color, seem rather to be the products of wistful affection. They reflect the same gee-whiz obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind his circus as his ego does behind his paintings...
...joked, was always on hand "to spank the Viet Cong." He relished the spotlight and was candid enough to admit it. "I like being a hero," he said with disarming frankness during last year's Cambodian invasion. Less well known was the fact that the "Patton of Parrot's Beak," as he came to be nicknamed, was also a skillful administrator who had commanded three of South Viet Nam's four military districts and at times was considered to head the fourth. He backed Vietnamization long before it became a stated policy...
When the allies invaded Cambodia last spring, exuberant South Vietnamese units thrust 24 miles into the Parrot's Beak area in the very first day. Last week, 14 days after the first ARVN troops pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans...