Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the war treaty is signed," East Germany's Communist Vice Premier Walter Ulbricht had warned, "Berlin will know the consequences." Puppet Ulbricht proved as good as his word...
...Indo-China, Miss Mintz said we are not completely up against a wall. We have to back neither the Communist Ho Chih-Mihn nor the imperialistic French and Bao-Dai. We can get tough with France, insist it set up a real government with popular support, not a puppet one universally disliked, staff the army with indo-Chinese, not Frenchmen, and let the country develop along national lines...
...Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning Robert and Elizabeth Laughton, he was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But Charles showed his inclination early. He played endlessly with a toy puppet show until his brother Tom, who had built a guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came at the age of eight: his mother surprised him in a large linen closet, where, dressed in pillowslips and sheets, he was performing dramatic solos before...
...administrator who delegates authority can degenerate into a puppet. Not Truman. From the first, his genuine humility in the face of his job was balanced -and sometimes more than balanced-by a natural cockiness and by his sense of the President's responsibility...
Nevertheless, the Smathers proposal would, if passed, be a most effective measure for electoral democracy since direct election of Senators. Congress should approve it and send it to the state legislatures for ratification. We hope it will get through in time to prevent another political puppet show...