Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolve. Under an acetylene sun, millions of peasants all over India continued to work in loincloths behind' scrawny bullocks, scratching at parched land with tools identical with those of a thousand years ago, struggling against disease and malnutrition, in debt to the moneylender, and blindly unaware of the modern techniques that could change their lives...
...West Germany is scheduled to have the West's toughest and most modern fighting force in Europe. The 350,000-man Bundeswehr will include a twelve-division army, a small navy, and a 1,300-plane air force built around the speedy (Mach 2) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter...
...Lambeth," said a top British cleric this week. "Archbishop of Canterbury Fisher has been a bit conservative, perhaps, in his approach to TV and other 20th century methods of mass communication. Bayne is from the New World; he is young and wants to grapple in a modern manner with the problems facing the church today. He wants to see that we don't go on plodding along the road we have always been plodding along. There's been a lot of fluttering in the dovecots over Bayne's appointment, but it's mostly with pleasure...
...stated, implying that the alternative is destructive nationalism and possible nuclear extinction. "Wars in the past," the Governor of Puerto Rico said, "have been fought by national states or blocs with a prospect of victory; there is no such prospect in the future," because of the absolute power of modern weapons...
...position in Arkansas depends to some degree on his keeping unions out of the state. It has been attacked as too weak and too strong. But it is probably the strongest bill that could have passed the Senate, and it does incorporate measures to reduce the worst abuses of modern labor...