Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there is the matter of vocabulary Shakespeare's Falstaff says. "I am melancholy as a gib cat or a lugg'd bear." But Coe's Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost...
...fact, Malaysia has already begun a series of informal meetings with the goal of setting up a "Tinpec," a cartel similar to OPEC, that would attempt to control world supplies and prices of tin. It even wanted to supplant the London futures market with one of its own, in its capital city of Kuala Lumpur. As if to show that the cartel was already working, Malaysia announced this month that it plans to cut its production by 25%, to 45,000 tons, thus driving up the price...
...Yale Coach Frank Keefe sayd, the meet has degenerated into a virtual four-way battle because the rest of the Ivy League has not kept pace with the recruiting efforts of Princeton, Brown, Harvard, and Yale. But now for the best swimmers and the best teams, the Easterns will supplant the Ivies as the season's championship meet...
...academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term. A watchdog senate, the wealthy Ab-bu or "elders," wielded backroom power...
...address the European Parliament in Luxembourg. With customary acumen, he seized the occasion to endorse a Middle East peace initiative the European leaders had agreed upon at their summit in Venice last June. But it was a qualified endorsement; he emphasized that the European effort should supplement rather than supplant the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel. When an Italian Communist deputy held up a placard reading NO TO CAMP DAVID! Sadat departed from his text to say, with a smile, "I have not come here to sell Camp David...