Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...
...Reds' proposals for communizing Tibet probably will be announced at the Chinese people's congress Friday. But the Panchen Lama, the Communists' puppet ruler, apparently gave his approval in advance...
...Russia grabbed so nakedly for power by puppet in the Middle East's Iraq (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the Arab world was brought up short...
...yellow limousines and a telephone (number: Lhasa 1), which could be connected with Peking. They filled his household with Communists, in 1954 "invited" him to Peking for some special tutoring, little by little passed on more and more of his duties to the Panchen Lama, their 21-year-old puppet...
Less than a year ago, the U.S. had such a glut of copper that the industry was asking for tariffs and subsidies. By last week copper supplies were, so tight that the price of copper was bobbing like a puppet. Custom smelters, who had been selling copper at 32? a lb., got out of the market for a week, came back at 34?-a lb. Major producers were selling copper at 31? a lb., v. last year...