Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Korean Foreign Minister whom the U.N. called a Soviet puppet...
Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...
...Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott-to a consciousness of new power and prestige. Russia had showed herself to the troubled peoples of Asia and to all the Red satellites of Europe as a puppet-master who abandons the puppet when things go wrong...
...against Korea. "It has been the aim of the Soviet Union," he charged, "to enslave and subjugate the people of Korea ... to force the formation of a Communistic dictatorial government in Korea." Chang gave details: how the Russian army in 1945 brought in Communist expatriate Koreans to be the puppet leaders of a police state; how terror stalked the north, purging especially "bishops, pastors and other men of Christian faith"; how elections were rigged in characteristic Soviet style...
...Francaise start things off. Before the three-week festival is over, visitors will hear, in all, 1,630 musicians and actors from eight nations, including six orchestras, four choirs, five chamber ensembles, more than 40 soloists, three ballet companies, one opera company. The only cancellation: Professor Skupa's Puppet Theatre, which was forbidden by the Czech government to leave Prague...