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Word: puppeteered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Representative from western Kansas fervently believes that Calvin Coolidge was the last solid, conservative Republican leader and that v Dwight Eisenhower is a puppet of Americans for Democratic Action. The Congressman plans to run this year on an anti-Administration platform, although he is not yet sure that he would be wise to attack the President personally. Says he: "You can cuss Eisenhower, and people get sore. You can say the Administration stinks, and they cheer." The Kansan voted only about 35% pro-Eisenhower last year, and his showing this year will be about the same. For a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mess in Washington | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...beat for the German boxing crown in 1928, had landed in a Soviet-zone jail. Diener's crime: while chief butcher in an East German sausage factory, he got caught passing out state-owned Bratwurst to hungry friends. Schmeling wrote to East Germany's Puppet President Wilhelm Pieck, got Diener pardoned by the Russians. Last week, after refusing a job as East Germany's commissar of boxing, Franz Diener fled to West Berlin and gratefully awaited a reunion with Old Opponent Schmeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...failed to achieve in all of four years' diplomacy -a sovereign, rearmed West Germany-the Soviet Union ordained in East Germany with a flick of its whip. Last week the Kremlin announced that the Soviet occupation of its East German satellite is at an end, that the puppet "People's Republic" will now be "a sovereign state . .. free to decide, at its own discretion, its own internal and external affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pseudo-Sovereignty | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came to join Bao Dai's army. But many more Vietnamese stayed away; they chose wait-and-seeism instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDOCHINA: THE WORLD'S OLDEST WAR | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...things about Andean art is its variety. At various points it seems to relate more to alien cultures than to itself. Shown on the following pages are an early stone puma that resembles nothing so much as an ancient Chinese bronze, a gold figurine that looks like a Javanese puppet, a double-image vessel that prophesies cubism, and a portrait head worthy of Sir Jacob Epstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURES OF THE ANDES | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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