Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appraisal of the progress that we have achieved without any foreign help. Mr. Daniels must have spent his three days in my country soaked in Dominican rum and blinded by the tropical sun if he didn't see the many large beautiful public schools, the big modern hospitals, the new university city, the newly constructed and well-paved roads, the ports, and the hundreds upon hundreds of public facilities built by my government...
...daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still swarmed into the City and then poured out again each evening to leave a lonely nighttime population of only 5,000. Finally...
...however, stand firmly behind the "moderate liberalism" of both major parties. As "Northern Democrats" or "Modren Republicans," they silently support the stock solution to a growing list of problems: call on Washington. Of course, Federal action may be the best (and in some cases, the only) solution to many modern-day challenges--but this is not the point. That this stock answer and similar slogans are passively accepted by many "moderate liberals"--often without intellectual study of the economic and political implications involved for our society, but in smug and self-satisfied silence --this is the danger. By his willingness...
...obliged, because you are Radcliffe graduates, to produce books and babies in alternate years, and shine in all the roles so confusingly available to modern women," he remarked...
Jones also called upon the new alumnae to help pioneer "in the solution of the human, intellectual, and moral problems of the over-developed society, notably our own." This, he stated, is the "task of American leadership" in the contemporary "Post-Modern...