Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist ROSCOE DRUMMOND: THE overriding political fact is that the Republican Right wing was decimated. Wherever the Republicans lost, it was almost uniformly the extreme Republican conservatives who fell by the wayside. Wherever the Republicans won, it was almost invariably the Republican liberals-the Eisenhower Republicans, the "modern" Republicans-who withstood and in New York turned back the Democratic avalanche...
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE: AS sure as day follows night, if the if, Republican party advertises its nominee as a "modern Republican" next time, it will increase the stay-at-home Republican vote, and surely elect the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...INDIANAPOLIS STAR: THE advent of "Modern Republicanism" has turned the G.O.P. into a mugwump party without any powerful or appealing national character. By its copy-cat tactics of merely adopting and adapting Democratic principles and programs, it has offered the voters no real opportunity for the kind of change that was promised them...
...tools of their trade: instruments and other equipment devised by modern man at his technological best-backed up, hundreds of miles away, by the U.S. Air Force's well-organized supply lines and standby rescue teams. Other invaluable tools: physical courage and determination. Nothing less than courage would serve the 20 lonely men drifting in the cold Arctic Sea through 20-hour summer days and 24-hour winter nights...
Swomley based his argument on the destructive potential of modern weapons. He stated that it is morally wrong for the U.S. to take part in an arms system "which, if used, would destroy civilized life...