understudy

Cummings was out and so was his understudy, Max Williamson, the young brute who showed up so wonderfully against the mighty Boks in the autumn.

It was signed by a man who has nominated Pete Hegseth, an understudy Fox News host, to run the Department of Defense.

His understudy is a better all-round player and Liverpool will save money.

With the leadership mantle passing from the former president to his understudy, Mondale offered a laudatory summation of the Carter administration.

"We still have a tendency to look at William as the kid, the apprentice, the understudy," he says.