Word: puppeteered
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From Hong Kong, in 1930, Ho tried to organize a Viet Nam revolt, but failed, and hid under several new aliases while the affair blew over. During World War II, he turned up in Viet Nam as Ho Chin Minh ("Mr. Ho the Bright Spirit"), turned out the Japanese puppet ruler and organized an anti-French rebellion. Once in power, he decided that Communism could wait. Says Ho: "Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said we should love our enemies. We are still far from that ideal. I do not know when Marx's ideal will be achieved...
...crimes trial in Tokyo, War Criminal Henry Pu-yi continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...expected Henry to speak his own mind. In childhood he was a puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...town hocuspocus. Trujillo had created it on paper and manned it with his stooges while he waited for the real Communists to show up. Anyway, he would keep the bogus party alive, just in case some of the real actors should prove unfit for their roles in the Dominican puppet theaters...
...literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...