Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers protect the White House. Johnny is usually...
Slowly the Chinese units fell back. To the battlewise lao ping, China's G.L, it was clear: he had not the strength to halt the enemy, nor the air support which he enjoyed in the battles in the south. Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth had no good bases in the north...
...Harvard, but paradoxically there is in a corner of the Yard a building whose reputation for community service is nation wide. Starting as a religious memorial for a famous Boston bishop, it has in peacetime taught old men cribbage and young men wrestling; now in wartime, it is providing ping-pong tables for service men, lounges for their wives, and a nursery for their children...
...lounge will give students with odd hours during the day a place to spend them. Bridge tables, ping pong tables a grand piano, dancing space, and a radio phonograph with a record library to draw from are provided in the large room. The small room contains a central reading table on which will be the latest local and out-of-town newspapers, current magazines, and stationery and writing materials...
...lounge, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House, is intended to provide the student with a comfortable place to spend leisure time. Bridge, ping-pong, and billiards are among the recreational facilities. A grand piano and a radio-phonograph, with a record library, cater to the students' musical tastes, while numerous magazines and newspapers will be provided in a smaller room off the main lounge...