Word: supplanting
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...third theme was the blind apotheosis and weaving of a cult around the "beloved communist leaders," especially Lenin and Stalin. This cult was intended to supplant the belief in God, and the cultists went so far on this path that they vested the Red leaders with almost supernatural characteristics...
Unfortunately, more students are needed if the need is to be met. With more help, friendship and knowledge might supplant isolation. Alice Oberg...
...essence, which is the songs themselves. The Gondoliers revolves around that stock English situation of changelings and mistaken identities, and ends with a happy resolution of the whole mess. The satire is aimed directly at both the pretensions of monarchy and the stupidity of the levellers who would supplant it. Except with Shakespeare and G & S, kings tend to set one yawning, but the Duke of Plaza-Toro and the King of Barataria are rollicking good fun. The brunt of the satire falls on the Gondoliers themselves, however, and their attempts to run the principality of Barataria according...
More and more, Nasser found himself backed into a lonely corner. As U.S. influence grew to supplant that of Britain as the principal stumbling block to his own ambitious plans for the Middle East, Egypt has been forced to look to Soviet Russia for encouragement. Russian trade with Egypt in the first months of this year quadrupled 1956's figures-but Russia is proving itself an exacting, suspicious and unprofitable partner, and Nasser's Moscow commitments have roused the Arab world's three Kings (Saud, Hussein and Feisal...
ROCKETS have always been as much a part of the U.S. summer scene as Fourth of July oratory. But today their gigantic descendants have become one of the fastest-growing U.S. industries and a first line of national defense. As missiles begin to supplant aircraft in the U.S. arsenal, the rocket-men are developing a fantastic new family of engines to conquer outer space. For a look at the companies that make the power plants of the future, see BUSINESS, The Rocket's Red Glare...