Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monster reactor yielding 100,000 kw. of electricity. Five more like it under construction will make the plant the world's biggest. General consensus was that the Russians, put deep in the shade by the U.S. technical exhibit, made the late announcement-by-inovie as a Sputnik-like surprise...
Defense Posture. Since Sputnik, the U.S. has placed four satellites of its own in space, sent two atom-powered submarines under the North Pole-unmistakable evidence that the nation is technologically equipped to counter the pressures and progress of Soviet Russia...
...four real and working fusion devices, which flash like lightning when crew-cut young scientists throw the switches. The U.S. exhibit cost $4,500,000. No other nation has anything comparable. The only item in the Soviet exhibit to draw much popular interest is nonnuclear: a gleaming model of Sputnik...
...with more bounce to the ounce. Most such concoctions are too volatile to handle. Last week Bell Aircraft announced success in taming one of them-liquid fluorine-which might boost rocket-payloads 70%. That would be enough to orbit U.S. satellites considerably bigger than Russia's very heavy Sputnik...
...Russian lunar probe has less priority than other undisclosed projects, said the U.S.S.R.'s top space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...