Word: puppeteer
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...time when we all need some good examples in the higher echelons of Government, you are to be commended on your choice of a man who is not flashy, but is honorable; one who is not a puppet of the powers that be, but instead dispenses justice fairly and impartially...
Historians have neglected these questions. They have recorded certain features of French colonial rule: how many miles of roads the French built, which Vietnamese served in the successive puppet governments, what the various French governorsgeneral thought of Vietnam and its people. But until this year, there has been no study in English of the Vietnamese peasants themselves, of how colonialism changed their traditional way of life and how they reacted to their French rulers...
...band. Dour, rigid, dressed in black, surrounded by performers, he receives little attention. Yet often as not he's playing as much of the lead as Townshend; his progressions on "The Real Me," and his work with Keith Moon on "Drowned" were truly stunning. Roger Daltry is a puppet, a helpless dancer. Programmed to march, twirl mike cords and pose with his hands clasped over his head, he's at a consistent loss for something to do. He may still suffer from an unfamiliarity with his material. In general his range, though not infinite, enables Townshend to escape with...
...hope that the Independents will be unable to agree on a successor to City Manager John H. Corcoran, whom they want to replace with someone more responsive to their commands. Corcoran, while not as aggressive and imaginative an administrator as Cambridge needs, is eminently preferable to any Independent puppet...
...process a fraud, the opposition withdrew from the contest five days before the voting and urged its supporters to boycott the polls. However justified, that action assured the Caetano government, whose victory was never in doubt, that there would not be even the smallest voice of dissent in the puppet parliament...