Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of surrealist palavers, the princes finally met last week in the capital city of Vientiane. But the meeting settled nothing, and more than ever the Three Princes recalled, in their operatic futility, the Three Ministers in Puccini's Turandot -Ping, Pong and Pang...
...Togetherness. Unemployment freed him for more revolutionary talk in Parisian cafés and garrets with men like Teng Hsiao-ping, Chou En-lai and Chen Yi (now, respectively, Secretary-General of the party, Premier and Foreign Minister of Red China). He also found time to fall in love with an energetic, determined Hunanese girl named Tsai Chang. Soon both joined the Communist Party and were married. In 1924, after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among...
...record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head swivel...
...Ping, pong, ping, pong...
...billion. Russia was to supply mainly machinery and finished goods, to be paid for with Chinese foodstuffs and raw materials. But with its well-publicized drought ("for 40 days it was possible to drive a car along the bed of the Yellow River," said Chinese Ambassador to Poland Wang Ping-nan recently), Peking was unable to deliver its part of the bargain. Instead, China has been sent scrabbling to buy wheat for itself from Canada, foodstuffs from other non-Communist nations to feed the folks at home...