Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Soviet diplomats laughingly suggested that the U.S. ought to try for Soviet technical assistance to backward nations. An office worker in Washington burst into tears; a calypso singer on the BBC in London strummed a ditty about Oh, from America comes the significant thought/Their own little Sputnik won't go off. Said a university professor in Pittsburgh: "It's our worst humiliation since Custer's last stand." Said Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, as he got ready to face a doleful press conference in Washington: "Nuts...
Uncle Sam thought of launching a Sputnik into...
...boastful and rich uncle called his Sputnik Vanguard...
Soviet newspapers did not tell the world about any Sputnik misfires that may have preceded the first successful launching of an artificial earth satellite. This is the difference between an open government of the people and the closed rule of a police state...
...military threat posed by Sputnik is immense, immediate and sobering. But in the larger range of history, the graver threat is that the Soviet Union has shown itself capable of briefly surpassing the West at its strongest point-the ability of a free society to outthink and outdo Communism's driven men. This was a challenge to the very basis of the West's civilization itself, and its hope of organizing a peaceful world on the principles it held to be self-evident...