sputnik
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With his trademark delivery - unhurried and calm - he informed viewers of the first sputnik in space, and delivered the communiqués of the Communist Party.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
This guy's not as imposing as a sputnik, but just as many bulbs.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2021
All languages borrow words from other languages — Americans may recognize agitprop, sputnik, babushka or cosmonaut.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017
The scientists told him that the big problem wasn’t so much sputnik but rather the shortage of future American scientists.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2012
This is about 1,500 miles farther than any Soviet shots revealed to the public in the 2½-year period following the first sputnik.
From The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics.
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