Search Details

Word: puppeteers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Russian-equipped army at least 100,000 strong, and it did not have to contend with the confused intrigue of 200 political parties as Hodge did in the south. Nevertheless, there was still a chance, thanks largely to Hodge, that Korea would not become a Communist puppet state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: More Important than Battles | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Marshall, the Molotov plan meant such Russian control of the Austrian economy that Austria would become "a puppet." U.S. estimates showed that Russia would thereby control 100% of Austria's Danube navigation, 70% of her crude oil industry, 99% of her hard coal industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Not Just No | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Mercy | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Germany, the U.S. system is pitted against Soviet totalitarianism. The Russian strategy is to sit it out and wait for U.S. impatience and renascent isolationism to call the G.I.s home. This would be the signal for a Communist underground in the south to emerge, combine with the Communist puppet government in the north and make all Korea into a Soviet satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Digging In | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...made good progress in the campaign to clear the Tientsin-Pukow railway line, one of the major links between northern and central China. The Communist position in south Shantung had been disorganized by the defection of General Ho Peng-chu, who had been first a Japanese, then a Communist puppet. Ho was captured by the Communists eleven days after he switched over to the Government with his 15,000 men; but the damage had been done, and the Nationalists were able to clear a considerable stretch of track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vacuum | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next