Word: puppeted
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What the Nazis planned for the stubborn Serbs they did not disclose. But whether there would be a puppet state or a new province of the Reich, it was certain that Germany's hand would be heavy upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
...been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...
...time gambling, joined forces with an Austrian refugee named Joe Farren to open a big, expensive roulette room in Farren's nightclub on the edge of the French Concession. Shanghai had not had an open roulette game since 1927, and the taipans and their wives and ladies jostled puppet Government officials and their concubines in their eagerness to drop their money on Riley's tables...
...puppet operas run 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, cut to fit the occasion. The records are played on two turntables, are marked with oil crayon so that recitatives or whole arias can be cut out in an instant...
...Wolff's $25,000 worth of puppets, sets, furniture and props fill 27 trunks. His fee for a week's engagement: $1,500. So far the puppet opera has cleared enough to pay Mrs. Wolff's debts and mortgage...