Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
International Ping-pong. Though language barriers tended to keep the Russians to themselves, the more serious-minded comrades played chess with the more serious-minded Americans and Britons; the less serious-minded joined in nightly howling at the bar or entered Ping-pong games involving ten nationalities and scoring in four languages. Even when the British playfully threw glasses of beer at the Russians from the top of a staircase, there was no international crisis. Things were less friendly in the villa, where the women of the press corps were quartered. There American newshens accused both French and Russian ladies...
Burke casually struck the mound with a pick, heard a ping and felt rock beneath. He and Bromley pulled away the moss. Said Burke later: "I was pretty excited. Free gold in flakes...
Last week, on a trim, whitewashed farm some 15 miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
...George, when not off resting in Italy or planning new marble fountains for the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire, would give Osbert earnest paternal lectures: "Unless you learn to play ping-pong properly, you can never hope to be a Leader of Men." Sacheverell was ruled by governesses and tutors to within an inch of his life. At four he was examining the architecture of Kensington Palace; at ten he was writing letters about Umbrian vases, Turkish armor, Stone Age remains...