Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest tricks of political self-preservation is shooting the (fire) works. With food prices skyhigh, unsanitary housing, insufficient transportation, Poles rioting, Hungarians grumbling, Chinese thinking, a guy has to do something to stay in business ; Nikita therefore had to shoot the sputnik to give them something to shout about. Their "moonitchko" is only the result of a desperate gamble to catch the imagination (of the Russians) and the headlines (of the West). To yell at our own scientists and planners because they are taking their time to produce a product for space research is merely harmonizing with Nikita...
When the sput goes out of sputnik, what will the Russians have left? Nicks...
...SPUTNIK : The success of the Soviet satellite, followed as it was by a mighty surge of Russian propaganda, made neces sary a re-examination of free-world technological progress. It has long been a cardinal aim of British foreign policy to share in U.S. nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth...
...Macmillan trip been made than Khrushchev demanded that he be included in a new summit meeting. Khrushchev's other-side-of-the-mouth belligerence had already ruled out any such possibility. But he had nonetheless done the free world a favor. By creating an emergency over Sputnik and the Middle East, he had newly welded the Atlantic alliance, perilously creaky since Suez, and inspired its members to get on with their business of collaboration...
...Francisco to address the International Industrial Development Conference, Vice President Richard Nixon did some heavy thinking. Nixon had never quite agreed, in National Security Council or Cabinet meetings, with the budget-first thinking that had put a $38-billion ceiling on defense spending. Now, in the second week of Sputnik, he drafted a speech that was considerably stronger than the President's own let's-keep-our-shirts-on position. Said Nixon, in effect, "Let's roll up our sleeves," and thereby he set the Administration on a realistic course between the hand-wringers and the shoulder...