Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of Hungary three years later is still that of puppet rulers holding power only by the presence of 60,000 Russian troops. The Soviet troops are not deployed as a field force against international danger, but scattered in "penny packets" outside each Hungarian town to guard against uprising...
...Chinese Reds after more than a decade as their "war prisoner." Last Emperor of China's Manchu dynasty, thick-spectacled Pu Yi reigned briefly as a child before losing his throne in China's 1911 republican revolution. Quarter-century later, the Japanese set him up as puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, but he again got the boot when World War II's end brought the defeat of his sponsors...
...imperturbability, the U.S. last week made reply in a note stiff with such phrases as "serious concern," "shock and amazement." Chilly Session. The protest, which Eisenhower went over "very carefully" before it was delivered in a chilly session at the palace between Ambassador Bonsai and Castro's puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticos, spoke frankly of "deliberate and concerted efforts to replace traditional friendship with distrust and hostility." The U.S. rejected "with indignation" any hint that the Government winked at clandestine flights to Cuba from 200-odd Florida airfields. And at week's end, the U.S. cracked down hard...
...pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. permanently renounced his $3,000 monthly, salary as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Soon El Caribe blossomed with a solid page of names of army officers, cops and party hacks who hastened to say that they were delighted to kick in. But when the government proposed canceling Christmas...
...Peking with full notebooks, the tunnel-visioned correspondents ticked off what they saw. Lhasa-where 15,000 died in the bloody fighting-was "quite normal." Everywhere, the people smiled on their oppressors-a piece of information the reporters picked up during lunch in Shigatse with Mao's puppet Panchen Lama. Then, suntanned and refreshed by their exercise, the correspondents trotted back to their cages...