Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Geneva figure Beal recognized was the delegation's secretary, Wan Ping-nan, "a heavy, sinister-looking, ' German-educated Chinese whom I had known in Nanking." One member of the delegation was unidentified by the West for the first three days. On the fourth day of the conference, Beal cabled: "I was able to identify this man for the American delegation as Chang Wen-chin, who served Chou as secretary and English interpreter during the Marshall mission and is in the same capacity here...
...help compensate for the distance to the Square, one entry basement is used as a community recreation center, where ping-pong, pool, and sandwiches substitute for the pinball emporiums near the Yard. In May, the House holds its traditional and always-successful Masquerade Hall, and the Dunster Dunces, an intra-House singing group has appeared widely around the metropolitan area...
...library, at the apex of the house triangle, is the largest physically and is quite comfortable. The lighting--long a source of complaint--was improved two weeks ago. Also available are several piano rooms, one of them in the tower, a photo dark room, billiard and ping-pong tables, a record listening room, and a chapel...
...Dunster is the party House," our leader commented, explaining its remoteness and great House spirit. One of the main reasons for its "communal atmosphere" is the refreshment room downstairs, where members gather at night for sandwiches and ping pong and other fun. In the library, one freshmen, in a read pastel athletic jacket with "Rockets" emblazoned on the back, asked, "How many books in here...
...undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...