Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silent as the session opens. The Administration does not plan to push any new civil rights legislation, and the Democratic leaders hope that their most dangerous party-splitting issue will not rise to haunt them. Cracked one Democratic Senator last week: "Little Rock is now just a place that Sputnik flies over...
...launching of the Russian Sputniks riddled many a cherished U.S. concept, including what was left of a tidy but fallacious military notion: that the Army commands the ground, the Navy rules the waves, and the Air Force controls the air. The post-Sputnik clamor for "leadership" can have few positive results unless the U.S. moves toward some system of military organization that makes effective leadership possible. The pressures of missile technology and loose handling of missile problems by the Pentagon have given new currency to an old idea, most recently and vigorously expressed by the Air Force's retired...
...such far-reaching change as a general staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
...confession of "errors," and Khrushchev told foreign reporters with boozy insouciance: "In life, one cell must die and another take its place. But life goes on. Marshal Zhukov did not turn out well as a political figure, but he was a good marshal and a good soldier." Just then, Sputnik II shot into space, and its roar drowned out the hubbub over Zhukov's fall...
...convinced of the Tightness of Khrushchev's policy reversal that he led the way for the adoption of Khrushchev's manifesto. Mao formally acknowledged the Soviet party's "leading role among the Communist and workers' parties," added: "China does not even have a quarter of a Sputnik and the Soviet Union...