Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular nightly diversion is what we call a snooper shoot. The Japs' reconnaissance planes circle like midges, dropping flares to summon torpedo bombers. Our main batteries light out with unexpected bursts. Sometimes we let go with everything and the tracers dance across the sea like ping-pong balls. It is impossible in the darkness to count how many we shoot down...
Jimmy Yen is organizing postwar plans for China. To many a Chinese he is more important than generals or cabinet ministers. In any case, he speaks for the Ping-min Chiao-yu, the Mass Education Movement which he founded and directs, and which revolutionized Chinese education by using Basic Chinese...
Agreement on these matters by the three Western Allies bore chiefly on the war and the peace in Europe. But the basic agreement-on international association and the disposal of defeated enemies-also had the signature of China's Moscow Ambassador, Foo Ping-sheung. The texts carefully dissociated China from the war in Europe, Russia from the war with Japan. But the significant fact remained that the U.S.S.R. and China had signed a joint, wartime document...
...interlude between wars, Mark Clark was just another officer. He went through the advanced schools-Infantry, General Staff, War College. He played tennis and ping-pong, developed a taste for fishing in the Rockies and Puget Sound. In 1924 he married blonde Maurine Doran of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Clark has confessed publicly that she met her husband "on a blind date" in Washington. There are two children: Ann, 17, who attends a high-school sculpture class in the national capital; and Will, 18, a plebe at West Point...
Cargill men hope this will be enough inducement for grain, coal and ore ship pers to make Port Cargill their rail-ship transfer point (WPB designated it the region's ore transfer point for war ship ping this spring, but retracted when Minneapolis and St. Paul objected). Cargill has long boosted river shipping, contended the big obstacle was not shallow channels, but lack of the proper boats. At war's end, Cargill, for the first time, will have an efficient, top-notch yard to rectify that...