Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to three Radcliffe students: Wilda M. Marraffino, to study Modern Italian History in Rome; Laura Maslow to study French History and Literature at Marseilles; and Mrs. Renee E. Watkins to study History in Florence...
...Sent to Congress negotiated agreements to supply nonnuclear elements of nuclear-weapons systems to West Germany, The Netherlands, Turkey, Canada. ¶ Named John Howard Morrow, 49, Negro professor of modern languages at Durham's North Carolina College, to be first U.S. ambassador to the newborn Republic of Guinea...
Weightier commentators see the status war as containing grave national dangers. Fortnight ago London's Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
Nothing but Couscous. Confronted by people with medieval habits who refuse to use modern laundries or eat anything but pasty couscous, and who sometimes riot when social workers try to bathe their children, the French army's Sections Administratives Specialises officers have done surprisingly well in some spots with the 700,000 regrouped Moslems in their care. Thirty miles south of Algiers the S.A.S. have built from scratch the Village du Sahel. It has modern schools, electricity and running water, army-built stone-and-plaster houses and shops. Its men have found work locally as agricultural laborers or herdsmen...
Last week's Denver convention showed that the modern square dance has long since stopped stomping, clogging and jigging (redeye is still optional), has become a forceful matter of sliding steps and intricate patterns. Dancers came from as far away as Germany and Great Britain, and from 46 U.S. states, most of them young married couples or spry middle-aged folk. Most impressive proof that square dancers are not square but hip: George ("Pop") Singer, who last week was energetically chassezing right and allemanding left...