Word: supplant
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...decided that Communism is losing its appeal, and that it is time to attack the Harvard man on some new ground. What better charge could there be than murder, which is almost as much of a threat to the American way of life as Communism? Soon Killers, Inc. may supplant the Labor Youth League and Young Radicals as the most sinister influence emanating from the University's ivied towers. The "Black Dahlia" case opens up a bold new stereotype...
...Committee on General Education will decide in March whether to expand the course which, if successful, may supplant English A. The tests were designed to reveal which of the two courses is more successful in teaching freshmen how to write...
When the Pope Speaks. Most U.S. Rotarians felt that there must be some mistake. Said the president of Rotary International, Arthur Lagueux, a Quebec investment broker and a Roman Catholic: "Rotary is not a secret organization. It does not seek to supplant or interfere with any religious or political organization. It assumes that its program of service is in accord with all religions, and it does not concern itself with a Rotarian's politics...
...thoroughly reorganized and more compact Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletic Sports will soon supplant the 23-man group which resigned secretly the day after the Yale football game, it was reported last week. The new chairman is George Witney '97, president of the Board of Overseers and chairman of the board of directors of J.P. Morgan...
Oversimplification. Writer Ferman complains that her husband became utterly dependent upon his analyst. As a social-work executive, he said, "to hive had an analysis was as desirable as to hold an advanced academic degree." She had hoped, after their marriage, to supplant the analyst "in a woman's way," but Jim went running from one analyst to another. Eventually, he tried to get Dorothy to go to an analyst. She refused, largely because of the cost, and concluded: "What it might do for me was less important than the fact that it would initiate me into the cult...