Word: kiwi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiwi-A. This sort of engine, which nuclear engineers consider a first step only, has been in development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...
...spite of its comparative feebleness, Kiwi-A will do its reacting all by itself. The nearest humans will be at a control point 1½ miles away. When the test is over, Kiwi-A, still intensely radioactive, will be drawn along a railroad track by a remotely controlled locomotive and tucked into a shielded area where it can be inspected by nonhuman hands controlled from behind thick shields...
...Kiwi-A will be only a small beginning. Later will come more ambitious engines of the same general type. The chances are that they will not be used for military purposes; chemical rockets can toss H-bombs cheaper and better. The role of nuclear rockets will be to carry large payloads to orbits around the earth or to the nearer parts of the solar system. They will be particularly good for ferrying supplies to an orbiting space-station. The engine will use only a small part of its uranium fuel during each trip, so if the space-ferry is recoverable...
...said. Then George volunteered, "Everyone around here wears white bucks--you don't shine white bucks. A guy told me they're s'posed to be dirty. Trouble is, there's nothing new--no new kind of color. I'm a Kiwi man," he said, confidentially. "But it's all the same...
...kiwi's rain-shawl