Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents soon found the reason. "We concentrate," blandly explained their son's teacher, an avowed Marxist, "on the real forces that made our country's history-the class struggle, the search for markets and profits. The history of Japan in modern times has been one of economic oppression at home and aggression abroad." But was that not a rather sweeping generalization? asked the father. Replied the teacher: "I'm only repeating what General MacArthur said...
...which also included tours of Minnesota farms, a youth rally, a children's festival and $100,000 worth of exhibits on youth work, evangelism, other church activities. Most of all, the Lutherans focused their attention on the great leaders of their faith, who are among the giants of modern Protestantism...
...pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...
This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...
...they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored rugs. Ghazan knows that this summer idyl cannot last and that by fall he must lead his tribe back to its winter grazing grounds, to face the 20th century in the shape of the modern Persian army. Then, to fight or not to fight, that is the question to which Ghazan desperately seeks an answer...