Word: puppeteered
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...help smooth things over, Moscow announced that Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan himself would arrive in Conakry soon after the first of the year for consultations. The fact remained that it was clearly too soon for the West - or for Russia - to write off Touré as a Moscow puppet...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (Show-corporation). Presenting Shakespeare with puppets is like playing Beethoven on a kazoo: it sounds awful, but if you can get used to the idea it can be fun. Indeed, when the trick is brought off as brilliantly as it is here, even the Shakespurists may indulge in a delighted suspension of disbelief. Dream was produced in Czechoslovakia by a 49-year-old gimcrack genius named Jiri Trnka (pronounced Trnka). the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc; it is incomparably the best puppet picture ever made, a shimmering translation of poetic fancy into technological fantasy...
...hours, taking turns reading their 100,000-word opinion, which has been four months in the writing, the judges explained why. Eichmann was found guilty on all 15 counts (crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, and membership in Nazi organizations) because, far from being "a puppet in the hands of others, he was among those who pulled the strings . . . This block of ice . . . this block of marble . . . closed his ears to the voice of his conscience, as was demanded of him by the regime to which he was wholeheartedly devoted, and to which he had sold...
Lloyd I. Rudolph '48, assistant professor of Government, asserted that criticism of the U.N. military actions is prompted by fear of any U.N. success and consequent prestige gain, and also by the desire to establish a "black puppet regime in Africa...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...