Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, but he also had much kinder words for U.S. policy past and present, overflowing personal tributes for President Eisenhower and, most surprisingly, thoughts of stronger support for South Viet Nam's doughty anti-Communist President Ngo Dinh Diem, whom Nehru had once belittled as a U.S. puppet. "What good will the U.S. has not been able to achieve in the past," India's Statesman reported, "was accomplished overnight by a bold and imaginative decision...
Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar, whose own fingernails were once pulled out by Communist torturers, last week proclaimed his intention of crushing the Hungarian revolution. "A tiger cannot be tamed by bait," he said. "It can be tamed and forced to peace only by beating it to death...
Resistance. Puppet and policemen alike found it hard to control a desperate and brave people. At Csepel the workers decided to return to work, but only to produce 3,000 bicycles to replace those looted from workers by police and soldiers. At many factories, when a few workers reported, no work was done for lack of power. The coal miners, most defiant of the strikers, cut only enough coal for essential services, and threatened to flood the mines if further coerced. Many miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas...
...inauguration of President-elect Kubitschek, General Lott stood out as a stout defender of law and democracy. But after playing his role as guardian of the constitution, he lingered on in the councils of the government. Kubitschek's opponents charged that the President was Lett's puppet...
...five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...