Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some evenings. They wander from the long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while...
...keeping 14,000,000 members of the Junior Red Cross busy this summer collecting rubber, making floor lamps, ping-pong tables, ash trays, writing boards, sweaters and bathrobes for Army and Navy hospitals...
...membership fee for the entire summer is five dollars, which sum puts at the disposal of the commuter facilities including two common rooms, a cafeteria which serves noon meals at minimum prices, a library, a locker room, and a ping-pong table...
Andrew Baggaley, of Shaker Heights, Ohio and Hollis Hall, swept through the Freshman ping-pong tournament without losing a single game to cop the championship last week. Baggaley defeated John White of Andover and Weld Hall in three straight games to take the final match and the title...
...seemed, had appointed 62 "coordinators" in its Physical Fitness Division-coordinators for such physically fitting sports as Ping-pong, Codeball,* archery, paddle tennis, marbles, canoeing, horseshoe pitching...