Word: ping-pong
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...Larry was good to work with. It was like playing ping-pong with a bowling ball. Bam! Bam! Bam! That’s what it is like. It’s fun. It’s very engaging,” Menand said...
...March 2006, the ping-pong president was a lame duck, and a tennis player—the 76-year-old Bok—came through Cambridge to restore the staggering review. Quietly, he met with professors and selected the new members for a summer committee, charging them to refine the program’s purpose...
...bars that covers the entire city, the rush to judgment is understandable. No modern capital is as open about its flesh trade as Bangkok is. Nor does my gender preclude me from generous offers. Touts invite me to watch sex shows in which teenage girls shoot ping-pong balls from their nethers. Or would I prefer darts? Or balloons? (I have caught the ping-pong show, and the athleticism, if nothing else, is staggering. Mostly, though, I decline the offers.) Even if my husband and I walk hand-in-hand down Bangkok streets, the women at massage parlors call...
...President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. The well-educated Wang was also imprisoned and once suffered a public parade in which she was forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls...
...It’s the wind,” insisted a graduate of Yale’s class of 2002 as he watched his orange ping-pong ball fall short of its target: a half-filled plastic cup, its side adorned with a logo and the words ‘Harpoon Brewery.’ “I’ve been to a few regattas before,” he related, undeterred, as he prepared for another shot. “But I don’t know if I’d call myself...