Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder Morris Milgram of Philadelphia, a crusading businessman who has built four successful integrated communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey over the past five years. Through an Illinois subsidiary of his Modern Community Developers, Inc., Milgram settled on Deerfield as the ideal site for his next experiment in residential equality. When word of Milgram's plan leaked out three weeks ago, homeowners feared that real-estate panic would drive down Deerfield values, wipe out many a family's savings...
...glossy magazines-all these have had an effect on our political strength," said Gaitskell. Labor's response, he said, raising a donnish finger and pursing his lips for emphasis, must not be to repeat past failures-"we have to show them that we are a modern 20th century party." Elderly party leaders on the platform looked stonily out over the unmoved audience...
...graffitos (or 'sgraffitos) are fairly rare birds, even in this modern age of marvels, and it took quite a search to find a suitable artist. The hero was finally secured, however, as everyone knew he would be, and one fine summer day he and his 16-year-old son came to Quincy and perpetrated a graffito, all blue, yellow...
...team needs a home for about two years until a proposed stadium is built in Norwood by a group that Sullivan also heads. The modern, all-weather field will be fit for baseball as well as football and has been mentioned as a future home...
...been more than a year since that modern American morality play, The Ugly American, hit the scene with its less than surprising revelations about State Department boobery abroad. Whatever its literary drawbacks--and they were great--the book did arouse public interest in an important field...