Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steady progression of Russian experiments-from Sputnik to hitting the moon to photographing the moon's far side, to extensive space tests with animals-indicates a Soviet determination to get man into space, and get him there as fast as possible. It also indicates that the moon is the Russians' first space objective...
Compelled by the Soviet's purposeful drive for the moon, stirred by the American tradition and man's limitless yearning to challenge the unknown, the U.S. has a new adventure in store, an old promise to keep-to its own pride, to progress, and perhaps to survival...
Russians. "After many years of international tension," began De Gaulle, "some signs of an easing of the situation are visible on the part of the Soviet world." Most important cause of the new Russian attitude, suggested De Gaulle, is the personality of Nikita Khrushchev, "discerning as he does that at the supreme level of responsibility," peace "is the supreme realism." But along with this tribute to his future guest, De Gaulle coolly offered the opinion that Russia had good cause to be conciliatory toward the West, since, internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations...
Then De Gaulle, his manner calm and impersonal, moved on to more delicate ground: "No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of having aided Communism to take root in China, recognizes that nothing can change the fact that Russia is a white European nation . . . face to face with the yellow masses of China, numberless and impoverished, indestructible and ambitious-a people that is building through trial and hardship a power that cannot be measured and that is already eying the open spaces over which it must one day spread...
...Leash. All U.S. scientists were delighted and touched by the universal friendliness of Soviet scientists. In every branch of science the Russians were eager to meet and talk with Americans. They read American journals, and in most cases are frank to admit that they measure their own progress against American work...