Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowed last week, and they had plenty to crow about. They had hit the moon, and U.S. scientists were not inclined to minimize their achievement. Furthermore, the Russians declared that they had been able to guide their missile in midflight, correcting its course to make sure it hit its target...
...first-stage rockets do not have the power to launch toward the moon an object big enough to carry guidance apparatus. So the aim of U.S. moon probers has to be right from the start-like firing a rifle bullet from a moving platform at a distant and moving target. This is much harder than the Russian system, which is more like navigating a ship into harbor...
...mysterious backside-a feat considerably more difficult than simply hitting it. Its timing may not be so good as that of Lunik II, which hit the moon just before Khrushchev's arrival in the U.S. (just a lucky break, said Khrushchev). But the U.S. moon shot's target date is early October-just before President Eisenhower is scheduled to visit Russia...
Using fused sticks of dynamite, the terrorists jolted the city three times within 40 minutes. First target was Fire Chief Gann L. Nalley, who had ordered fire hoses turned on the mob marching on Central High last month; an explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district...
...Target: Tranquillity. The Russians gave precise information about Lunik's radios, which were transmitting on seven different frequencies. Signals were received briefly in San Francisco and in Japan, then faded out as moon and Lunik disappeared behind the earth. By this time the Russians had time to line up their figures. They announced officially that Lunik II would reach the moon four minutes ahead of schedule: at 5:01 E.D.T. They also predicted boldly that it would hit in the region between the Sea of Tranquillity, the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Vapors. The way to tell...