Word: puppeteering
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...Most able Viet Namese have refused to enter the government, and just last week three of Bao's ministers resigned because the government "in no way represents the people." Reports from western newspapers correspondents estimate that at least 80 percent of the population considers the Bao regime a Paris puppet, and backs either tacitly or openly the only national movement, the insurgent Viet Minh...
...when the purge rumor became fact U.S. friends of amiable, stocky Vladimir Clementis thought that he had returned to Prague because i) he thought he could straighten out his relations with the Russians and 2) he was too proud to admit that he had been wrong in becoming their puppet...
Double Sodas. The original Howdy is a wooden puppet 26 inches tall, who hates guns, dresses like a cowboy, and talks as though his mouth were filled with marbles. His voice and brain are supplied by a fretful, 32-year-old disc jockey named Bob Smith, who conceived Howdy three years ago on a daytime radio show. Transplanted to TV, the puppet flourished so sensationally that, in 1948, Howdy ("The only candidate made completely of wood") claimed more write-in votes for U.S. President-than Henry Wallace. "It's been a hard job," says Smith. "We have to bend...
Died. Sarat Chandra Bose, 60, chubby, British-baiting leader of India's left-wing Socialist Republican Party, elder brother of the late Subhas Chandra Bose, wartime Japanese puppet, younger brother of the late Congressman Satish Chandra Bose; of a coronary thrombosis; in Calcutta...
Like the others it is a skillful, dramatic allegory in which each character becomes an effective symbolic puppet. Like the others it deals with unpalatable human possibilities, but like most allegories it induces fairy-tale shivers instead of moral indignation...