Word: ersatz
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...might be feasible to maintain the present arrangement with Christian Herter in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Department. If the President showed any willingness or capacity to take on the formulation of major policy re-orientation, the country could face the prospect of an ersatz Secretary with equanimity. But since the reverse is true in both instances, it is essential that Secretary Dulles resign immediately...
...records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about Germany with a retinue that includes a tutor and a private secretary...
Certainly the substitute which the Council proposes is an unreal and valueless one. It is but another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy...
...journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long in Africa. He was 21 when his first play (House of Regrets) was produced. On a TV show in London three years ago, Ustinov's raucous imitation of musicians, U.S. politicians and various automobiles (a passionate hobby...
...that a master's timing could do for some jokes so long-fused they may explode on next week's show. By lavishing a lifetime of comic know-how on his role, Lahr salvaged a few minutes of fun from what may be the ultimate in ersatz-an hour of hothouse Runyon...