Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished out of the prize money...
...spikes can rip across the wet soil and oars can slash the choppy waves. At last muscles can hurt after an afternoon of rugby and lungs can ache after hours of lacrosse. The discus and the javelin slice through somehow cleaner air and the ping of the tennis court seems a truer sound as the air turns warmer...
Replied Fund Vice President W. H. ("Ping") Ferry: suggestions that the book be revised had come three months ago from Professor Sutherland himself and from Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter, an eminent historian now working on a Fund-financed ($300,000) study of Communist influence...
...Johnson spent half a year in a Japanese internment camp in Manchuria and last year, at the Indo-China peace conference in Geneva, opened the first round of negotiations for the return of U.S. prisoners. Last week in Geneva Johnson faced an old antagonist: Red China's Wang Ping-nan, 47, Ambassador to Communist Poland and a close friend of Chou Enlai...
...discussions at Geneva went Red China's Ambassador to Communist Poland, Wang Ping-nan, 47, a protégé of wily Premier Chou Enlai. From the U.S., after firm final guidance from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, went Ambassador Ural Alexis Johnson, 46, able career diplomat and specialist on northeast Asia. This will be no glare-bathed conference on general principles like the Parley at the Summit; chances are that it will be a long, quiet conference grinding away at details...