Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wholesale deportation was not Russia's only technique for reducing a people. The Hungarian peasants who had been bringing food into Budapest and giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio...
...found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime in Budapest because, "In my opinion they represent that which is most honest in Hungary...
...Shaw is resounding an old standard theme, he works variations-and even a fantasia-upon it. He can jiggle his royal puppet in the classic role of the Patriot King; he can even make a kind of If-I-Were-King of Magnus. The Socialist Bernard can act a Strong Man on the throne, a Passionless Shepherd in the boudoir. The disbeliever in monarchy can suggest that a constitutional monarch be flagrantly unconstitutional, and can have him retain his throne by threatening to abdicate and prove ten times as troublesome in Parliament...
...week, Napoli, was only a few years younger (1842), had even more pantomime as well as one long actful of leaps and turns. It also contained a memorable little piece of stage magic that delighted New York City audiences as if they were children at their first puppet show. When Teresina (Kirsten Ralov) is turned into a naiad, she kneels in a pink gown, then suddenly stands up dressed in green seaweed. Later, with as little fanfare and in full view, she suddenly switches back to pink...
...ruddy-cheeked, rangy (5 ft. 11 in.) man, with greying brown hair and good-humored eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses. Looking, as one longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead...