Word: puppeteered
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...ruddy-cheeked, rangy (5 ft. 11 in.) man, with greying brown hair and good-humored eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses. Looking, as one longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead...
Circus-minded Robert Kerr of Oklahoma found a niche in his political sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
...another happily and headed back to the palace for talks. The agenda: how to terminate the Communist rebellion on terms acceptable to both sides. Two years ago the French bequeathed Laos to Souvanna Phouma's Nationalists, but the Communists, headed by Souphanou Vong, illegally set up a puppet state in two provinces adjoining Communist North Viet...
Last March West Germany agreed to give Yugoslavia $74 million in World War II reparations and long-term loans. But now that Tito had gone to Moscow and talked about Germany's "two sovereign states," Bonn feared he was about to recognize the puppet East German regime. Despite private assurances that Tito would not do so, the Adenauer government last week pointedly allowed West Germany's Bundestag to adjourn for the summer without ratifying the Yugoslav treaty. "Blackmail," cried Yugoslavia's Politika, but West Germany is prepared to wait until Tito's assurances sound as loud...
...temper.") A colleague of U Nu since the '30s, when both were leaders in the anti-British activities of Rangoon University students, U Ba Swe narrowly escaped execution during World War II when the Japanese discovered that he had been using his position as chief of their puppet "civil defense unit" in Rangoon to cover up his activities as a leader of Burma's anti-Japanese resistance movement. Released from a Japanese prison at the intercession of U Nu. U Ba Swe promptly became boss of Burma's Socialists, and has long been the biggest political power...