Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
...greed in past decades; 2 British Socialist advertising of the magic word "nationalization" 3) failure of the U.S. to develop an effective policy in Iran; 4) complete lack of U.S.-British cooperation (TIME, Jan. 8). As usual, the Russians stand to gain from the West's failure: their puppet Tudeh party, officially outlawed, is very active behind the scenes in the drive for nationalization of Iran's oil. Thousands of people ran through Teheran's streets, shouting: "Our oil is nationalized...
...style electrically lighted advertisement of Esther Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in four-hour sittings. This week's favorite; Bomba, the Jungle Boy. The dance halls, puppet shows, Balinese dancing-girl acts, shell games and other enticements of the "Great...
...Communist fellow traveler. Cole explained his view of Far Eastern events: "I looked on the war in Korea as essentially a civil and not an international war ... I wanted the North to win. The Government of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reactionary puppet affair...
...spring of 1946, a little man named Hussein Ala, envoy from Iran, stood before the U.N. Security Council and unflinchingly insisted that the Russian army get out of his country. Sullenly, the Red army withdrew. The Communist puppet government of Azerbaijan in northern Iran collapsed. This was the first important postwar setback for Communist aggression-and the first great post-war symbol of the free world's strength. Thoughtful men, while they rejoiced, realized that the victory would be empty unless the U.S. moved rapidly to aid Iran, which was economically prostrate and politically shaky...