Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mobile forces, deployed around the world on 24-hr, alert, are backed up by the world's most modern manned bombers; atomic weapons have increased the striking power of U.S. military forces a thousandfold...
...achieve more powerful effects, offends many a conservative Swede. His mural for Stockholm's Caroline Hospital showing a coarse peasant Christ surrounded by nude suppliants so shocked the hospital authorities it was consigned to the basement, and only later rescued by the city's Museum of Modern...
...political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...
...five years (repayable by eleven years after graduation). Cost: $295 million altogether for the next four fiscal years. Special consideration will be given to students who want to teach in elementary or secondary schools, and to students with superior background in or capacity for science, mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language. Half the sum of loans will be forgiven to students who teach for at least five years...
...Grants to states of $280 million in matching funds to buy equipment for teaching math, science or modern foreign languages. Loans will be made to private schools for the same purpose...