Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bread and Circuses Puppet Theater contributed a gorilla skit entitled "Macthieu" to no one's edification. S. Eric Rayman '73, Lampoon Hautboy, brought the proverbial curtain down on his head with a reading of telegrams to N. V. Thieu that included...
...hated secret-police chief; Beria was executed six months later. Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, but that powerful post was not enough. Sixteen months later, he ousted Malenkov, the Premier and Stalin's successor, and replaced him with his own puppet, Nikolai Bulganin. Finally, in March 1958, he assumed the premiership himself, acquiring undisputed control...
Coup Attempt. The U.S. had hoped that it would be obvious to the South Vietnamese that a fair and vigorously contested election would knock down Hanoi's persistent charge that the Saigon government is a puppet of Washington. A willingness to allow diverse elements to compete for governmental power might also have convinced Hanoi that the time had come to negotiate seriously for a peace settlement. But as Thieu reaches for greater power by grasping all available governmental levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall...
...more philosophical: "The sooner you realize you're a product, the better." Dressed, coiffured and paraded up and down, contestants are like dolls for moms and dads. "Miss America," says Author Deford, "represents no more than what the older generation thinks youth should represent. She is a puppet of middle-aged values...
...Puppet Show. In the later years of the 19th century, the Third Republic could rarely be described as a working democracy. Haunted by France's humiliating defeat in the war of 1870 enraged clericals and anticlericals, lurking royalists and Bonapartists, wild radicals and Republicans turned the parliamentary process into a dismal puppet show. Chosen Minister of War in 1886, Boulanger swiftly, humanely and intelligently democratized, reorganized and re-equipped France's demoralized army. Like Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952, he became, almost overnight and with little effort on his part, the center of a whirlwind political force. "Boulangism...