Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport, when a Western correspondent asked Teng Hsiao-ping, the chief of Peking's departing delegation, how the talks had gone, he replied, "Very good." Obviously, the opposite was true. During their last week in Moscow, while Western negotiators were feted and nattered, a kind of Great Wall surrounded the unwelcome visitors from Peking. From their isolated compound on Moscow's Lenin Hills, the Red Chinese delegates ventured out only in curtained black Chaika limousines for the short drive to Peking's embassy; on alternate days they met with a Soviet delegation, obviously to no effect...
Rock's little woman soon has him flying in circles. When he cashiers his base commander (Barry Sullivan) for ship ping too much sauce, she denounces Rock as a martini-counting martinet...
...Chinese delegation apparently spent most of its time driving through the Lenin Hills section of the city in black limousines, shuttling mysteriously from Peking's embassy to Dom Priemov to the villa where they lived. Western newsmen once glimpsed Teng Hsiao-ping, the leader of Peking's group, serenely strolling through the villa's gardens. The only sign of life behind the massive, cream-colored walls of Dom Priemov were the boots of a Soviet soldier, which protruded beneath the spiked iron gates when he opened a peephole to scrutinize an arriving automobile. For the first time...
Although Nikita Khrushchev suddenly discovered urgent business in Kiev, the Kremlin was stiffly correct about it all, sent out its chief dialectician, lanky, austere Mikhail Suslov, to meet the visitors. Head of Peking's seven-man mission: Teng Hsiao-ping, secretary-general of the Chinese Communist Party. As Teng stepped out of a Soviet TU-104 jet, a crowd of Chinese residents in Moscow, watched closely by a Chinese army colonel, sent up a cheer...
Many students asked for ping pong, pool, shuffle board, bowling, a snack bar, and a dance floor in the proposed student union...