Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jangle of Silver," found in Chapters II and III. Her next major interest will be, no doubt, "Extra-Curricular Activities," of which the most important will be the Athletic Association. Her first meeting with this body will be Freshman Play Day, designed for those who "enjoy pushing a ping pong ball along the ground with your nose or jumping across the finish line in a paper sack." If she is so inclined, this event is just for her since "you have the fun, and the upperclassmen cheer you on." Another "AA" surprise is the Yacht Club, which urges the seagoing...
...Artist Chaliapin says he meant to illustrate neither Yang nor Yin, simply ping and pong...
With the building occupied ahead of dedication and the 2,000 employees purring with content at twelve bowling alleys, beauty and barber shops, card rooms, general store, lending library and ping-pong tables, President Wilde found hirings up 70%, turnover down 20%. And from Architect Bunshaft, already applying the hard-won discoveries on half a dozen even newer buildings, there was a satisfied, "I think this is the best job we've done. The big thrill is to see a dream happen...
...establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...looking for noxious weeds to bare their heads to the party scythe. He had to wait awhile; it was weeks after Mao's "rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics could expect vigorous counter-criticism, but as yet there was-no evidence that they would suffer worse. The basic fact about their criticism is that the West...