Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...Bull" Warren's anathemas was late-comers to his classes; rather would he have a student be absent than come late and interrupt. But one day a man in Navy uniform, carrying a bulky bag of books, did come in late and step- ping over scores of legs, reached the long-empty seat in the middle of the room...
...defeat Japan, he said, the U.S. should land on China's coast-but only with a small force. What China mostly needs, he said, is supplies; lao ping, not the G.I., would shed his blood for the continent, and thus few U.S. divisions would be diverted from the Japanese mainland...
...that shoots Ping-pong balls, designed for studying the trajectory of machine-gun bullets...