Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sights Dog. Headlines yelped such barbaric new words as pupnik and pooch-nik, sputpup and woofnik. Cartoonists filled outer space with gloomy GOPniks and gleeful Demo-niks, drew doghouses occupied by Marshal Zhukov and U.S. defense officials. Readers reported mysterious flying objects that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram promptly dubbed whatniks. Photographers posed Skye terriers and Airedales in front of telescopes, concocted such whatniks of their own as the Knoxville Journal's cut of a space platform with Rin Tin Tin in the driver's seat...
Besides barking up a flock of man-sights-dog stories, Muttnik pointed the press to such offbeaters as the U.P.'s breathless account of an Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...
...survival in space lost nothing from the fact that the space pup changed names with almost every orbit. The New York Times, which devoted a special inside column to the tales of wags, at first identified it as Kudryavka. a female name meaning Curly. The Times then decided the dog was a male named Limonchik (Little Lemon). Even in Moscow, reported a Baltimore Sun correspondent, an economics journal called the dog Malyshka, while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female named Laika after its breed. But, though they...
EVERY DOGNIK HAS ITS DAYNIK. Said the story below: "It's a case of the dog wagging the world." Scenting a new trend in Soviet science, the Chicago Sun-Times'?, Columnist Irv Kupcinet declared: "The Russians are raising a new breed of dog-Moongrel." The week's longest reach into the void: when the Russians shoot cows into outer space, it will be the herd shot 'round the world...
Reports were conflicting about the fate of the dog riding in Sputnik 11. For six days after the launching, Russian scientists reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...