Word: supplanting
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...bars, found the patrons restless. In a West 38th Street saloon, Otello was largely drowned out by Buttons and Bows from the jukebox, and finally a customer shouted: "Turn on the fights-I want to see the little guy get murdered." Concluded Reporter Blackman: "Opera is not likely to supplant boxing in midtown bars and grills...
...Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made of him when he first arrived in Japan...
Administration: By an Economic Cooperation Administration, headed by a $20,000-a-year administrator, a deputy administrator and a $25,000-a-year roving ambassador for liaison work abroad. ECA would be responsible for continuing reassessment of each nation's needs, would "work with rather than supplant existing agencies" such as State (on foreign policy), Agriculture (food), Commerce (allocation of items in short supply), the National Advisory Council (financial policy...
...explanation for the increase came from Union College Physics Professor Vladimir Rojansky. Said he: "Russian increasingly will supplant French as the second language [after German] for the research scientist...
...those internationalists who expected that, with the establishment of the United Nations, sweet reasonableness would supplant power as the keystone of world diplomacy, Mr. Vishinsky's petulant outburst before the General Assembly must have been quit a shock. The provocation for all the sound and fury, Secretary Marshall's proposals for circumventing the Security Council and the veto in certain instances, were logically constructed to increase the effectiveness of U.N.'s authority; and the recommendations were backed by overwhelming support from world opinion as measured in the General Assembly...