Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them the failed socialist methods of Marx and opening the way to capitalist reforms. The demise of apartheid gave the continent a huge psychological--and economic and political--boost. A generation of African leaders who grew up to despise the exploitation of postcolonial dictators and kleptocrats has begun to supplant them...
...indispensable kitchen reference source, and a fail-safe graduation or wedding present besides. It told beginning or uncertain cooks how to, among everything else, set a table, fillet a fish and turn a squirrel carcass into something edible. The 1975 Joy, the edition that the new book will supplant, has still been selling about 100,00 copies a year...
Members of the church celebrate the Lord's Supper with water rather than wine or grape juice. They believe their President is a prophet who receives new revelations from God. These can supplant older revelations, as in the case of the church's historically most controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of polygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision. Similarly, an explicit policy barring black men from holding even the lowest church offices was overturned by a new revelation in 1978, opening the way to huge missionary activity in Africa...
...artists didn't just want to imitate the Renaissance; they hoped to outdo it. Americans could take the trophies of high European culture and make them their own. Above all, they connected to the Renaissance by buying it. The Gilded Age began the process whereby the museum began to supplant the church as the emblematic focus of American cities. The suction of American capital was turned on the old collections of Europe. Out of it came some of the greatest museums in the world, from the encyclopedic Metropolitan in New York to the choice Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston...
...solid square shape and silver cap, Mer's bottle symbolizes "the broad, masculine shoulders of a man" who's ready to shoulder responsibility, Petrukhina points out. But there's more than just smell and square lines to the politically ambitious Luzhkov, who makes no secret of desire to supplant Boris Yeltsin. The mayor was involved in every step of the design process, even rejecting Novaya Zarya's initial pick for the cologne box's color. His final choice? Red ? to represent the Kremlin walls...