Word: ersatz
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...days later Miss France cinched the title when she met and defeated the belated Miss Italy and an ersatz Miss Austria whipped up at the last minute from a Paris fashion house. Miss Italy walked off with a consolation prize: a gallant proposal of marriage from her indignant impresario. She accepted...
...Matter of Taste. In Broadwood-widger, England, mystified residents, keeping watch after the town's windowpanes repeatedly fell out of their frames, discovered that hungry birds were eating the ersatz putty...
...Arthur Rank has shunned customary procedure in his totally unorthodox presentation of a documentary film. Centered around the historic migration of Australian cattle herds to escape a threatened Japanese invasion, "The Overlanders" becomes experimental by American standards in its complete emphasis on realism without the added appeal of ersatz excitement. Mr. Rank has successfully produced an absorbing, plausible movie and neatly avoids treading on the worn-down heels of contemporary horse operas...
When Boston's ersatz Paul Revere gallops off with the cry "The Redcoats are coming!" at the Patriots Day celebration Saturday afternoon, the alarm will contain more truth than fiction for the first time since the Yorktown surrender...
From the results of the Crimson's departmental poll released today one significant conclusion may be drawn; only a few scattered fragments remain of the universal tutorial system, once one of Harvard's unique possessions. Almost to a man, the many departments of the University have fallen back upon ersatz products of one type or another--some have provided adequate substitute systems, some have consolidated their non-tutorial teaching methods and even the advocates of the old full tutorial seem to question the value of opening it indiscriminately to everyone...