Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslavia's civil war raged harder than ever. The Nazis and their stooges caught so much hell from former Yugoslav soldiers, Serb Chetnik guerrillas and other Yugoslav patriots that puppet Premier Milan Neditch of Serbia called on the peasantry to battle for the Axis. Snorted a Serb spokesman in Ankara: "If Neditch thinks that he can persuade the peasants to turn upon their own fathers, sons and brothers fighting in the mountains, he has taken leave of his senses...
Condemned to death was puppet Premier General Alois Elias, whose loyalties have frequently seemed dubious. When he was not promptly executed it was suspected that Premier Elias might have had something to exchange for clemency...
Race-proud Manager Roxborough, pleased with his puppet, continued to use Louis as an ambassador of racial good will. He advised Joe to treat his opponents with unusual deference, inside the ring and out. He forbade him to have his picture taken with any white woman, or ever to enter a cabaret alone. When Joe was caught speeding at 90 m.p.h. along a Chicago boulevard, Roxborough took away his driving license, has never since permitted him to drive a car (one of Joe's brothers has since been his chauffeur...
Louis learned his part so well he soon ceased to be a puppet. Today, after four years of monopolizing the world's heavyweight championship, he is not only the idol of his race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...
...inch of Chinese territory." But clear as the Inland Sea is the Japanese position on withdrawing now: it is out of the question. Last week, to lend credence to Japan's apparent good intentions, Tokyo put out a palpably false story that Free China in Chungking and Puppet China in Nanking were on the .point of making peace. Chungking slapped the story down...