Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough, petulant, vital, bantering, implacable. The U.S. was calm, curious, confident, challenging. Khrushchev staked claim to rocket power and the inevitable acclaim of history. Millions of Americans, lining his route, countered with a crash of unapplauding silence more eloquent of unshaken resolution than batteries of rockets on the moon...
...sounded a prideful note of power that was to echo, sometimes blaring, sometimes muted, as the dominant theme of his trip. "Shortly before this meeting with you, Mr. President," he said, "the Soviet scientists, technicians, engineers and workers filled our hearts with joy by launching a rocket to the moon. We have no doubt that the excellent scientists, engineers and workers of the U.S.A. will also carry the pennant to the moon. The Soviet pennant, as an old resident, will then welcome your pennant." Khrushchev's tone at this point was so pleasantly conversational that Ambassador Menshikov flashed...
...motorcade of black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...
Russian spacemen crowed last week, and they had plenty to crow about. They had hit the moon, and U.S. scientists were not inclined to minimize their achievement. Furthermore, the Russians declared that they had been able to guide their missile in midflight, correcting its course to make sure it hit its target...
...scientists know how to build such a guidance system, but they are frustrated. U.S. first-stage rockets do not have the power to launch toward the moon an object big enough to carry guidance apparatus. So the aim of U.S. moon probers has to be right from the start-like firing a rifle bullet from a moving platform at a distant and moving target. This is much harder than the Russian system, which is more like navigating a ship into harbor...