Word: replacedable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the many newcomers was 41-year-old Sculptor Giacomo Manzu, who had executed a provocative bas-relief of the Crucifixion in which the traditional Roman legionary had been replaced by a gross and swaggering Nazi.
For one thing, the new $500,000 stage was not finished. Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots. The new amplification system had eliminated the echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about...
30. A shakeup in the Moscow high command replaced Foreign Minister Molotov with Andrei Vishinsky, and to the important post of First Deputy Foreign Minister went the man who had cast 25 vetoes at the U.N. Security Council:
As Judy stepped down from the stand at week's end, many a spectator wondered how her story would sound under cross examination this week. But none denied that Judy and Archie had put on the brashest old-fashioned courtroom melodrama Washington had seen since the secret document replaced...
Remarkable Reform. By 1947, some of the boys were running wild enough-gambling and crapshooting in dark corners of the Capitol-to make Congress yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed...