Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the purge rumor became fact U.S. friends of amiable, stocky Vladimir Clementis thought that he had returned to Prague because i) he thought he could straighten out his relations with the Russians and 2) he was too proud to admit that he had been wrong in becoming their puppet...
Double Sodas. The original Howdy is a wooden puppet 26 inches tall, who hates guns, dresses like a cowboy, and talks as though his mouth were filled with marbles. His voice and brain are supplied by a fretful, 32-year-old disc jockey named Bob Smith, who conceived Howdy three years ago on a daytime radio show. Transplanted to TV, the puppet flourished so sensationally that, in 1948, Howdy ("The only candidate made completely of wood") claimed more write-in votes for U.S. President-than Henry Wallace. "It's been a hard job," says Smith. "We have to bend...
Died. Sarat Chandra Bose, 60, chubby, British-baiting leader of India's left-wing Socialist Republican Party, elder brother of the late Subhas Chandra Bose, wartime Japanese puppet, younger brother of the late Congressman Satish Chandra Bose; of a coronary thrombosis; in Calcutta...
...extend aid to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made some hasty trips to Capitol Hill, agreed to spend $10.5 million or less on Formosa from some leftover ECA funds in return for funds for South Korea, a U.S. ward perilously adjoining the Soviet puppet regime of North Korea. For two days House Republicans railed against the Administration's "do nothing" policy in Asia before 42 of them (out of 169) finally joined in supporting the Administration in an area-Korea-where it really was trying to be positive...
Like the others it is a skillful, dramatic allegory in which each character becomes an effective symbolic puppet. Like the others it deals with unpalatable human possibilities, but like most allegories it induces fairy-tale shivers instead of moral indignation...