Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since Author Carlo Collodi of Tuscany invented Pinocchio and told his story in Italian, children all over the world have come to know the long-nosed puppet and his kindly maker, Geppetto. His adventuresfrom the day the old woodcarver hewed him out of a log to the morning he turned into a real, live boyhave been told in 52 languages. In Italy last week, Puppet Pinocchio was going through his paces in Language No. 53: a breezy but excellent Latin...
...into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...
...split" allegedly went back to post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...recommended, and the Peking regime approved: 1) a ban on U.S. subsidies for China schools and churches, 2) a takeover by the Red state or by puppet "people's" enterprises of all U.S.-subsidized educational, medical and relief institutions, 3) a transfer of U.S.-subsidized "religious bodies" to the control of "Chinese believers [whom] the government should encourage to become independent, self-sufficient and self-preaching...
...galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...