Word: parroting
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...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...
...talk about winning the war on terrorism, but we will never win such a battle. An endless stream of people are willing to commit suicide in violent acts for a cause that has been made absolutely clear to us: forcing us out of the Middle East. Yet we parrot phrases like "They want to destroy our way of life" and "They hate our freedom." We are the worst kind of trespassers, with no legitimate business in Middle Eastern countries. The West is driven by a hunger for their oil. We continue to deal with unscrupulous royalty while the death toll...
...terrifying. In a stunning Arabesque world map from the 8th century, Beatus of Li?bana, a Benedictine monk who tutored the Spanish royal family, describes India as "famous for gems and elephants," and adds that "there are men of all colors, huge elephants and dragons, the Monoceros beast, the parrot bird, ebony wood, cinnamon, pepper and aromatic reed. It sends forth ivory, precious stones, beryls, adamant burning carbuncles, and pearls." But, he warns, there are also "mountains of gold impossible to approach because of dragons and gryphons and monsters of enormous...