Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the more startling revelations to the gray-uniformed cadets, who generally spend winter week-end dates playing ping-pong in the weapons room or marching in close order before their shivering girls, was the fact that Amherst fraternities are "the scenes of milk punch parties and dancing." Repressed "Pointers" were also told that "Venturesome couples drift upstairs to get a little lovin...
...active house committee contrives a steady flow of Saturday night informal dances. Adams was one of the first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy...
...first House music room and record collection, a library strong in American Literature and well-stocked in other fields, a ping-pong room, squash courts and the only House tennis court in the world...
Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...
Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...