Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...
With the idea born, all the cagers needed was the financing. So they employed a touch of the alumni network, counting on Crimson connections. Tom Stenberg and Ed Lee coordinated the drive with the Fung Ping-fan family playing a major role. Having received funds from several graduates, Coca Cola, American Express and Braniff Airlines, the Harvard hoopsters were on their way--to Beijing...
...Borg says. "The strings will break, ping, ping, ping." Mike Blanchard, 73, a tennis umpire at international competitions for five decades, has seen his share of tennis players, but he has never seen racquets like Borg's: "It's like playing with a board. The ball jumps off the racquet so fast because there's no give to it. The reason other people don't do it is they can't get control. But Borg just caresses the ball...
...baseball players, who view damage to a favorite bat as a death in the family. Only two men in the world, one in Stockholm, the other in New York, are skilled enough to string racquets to Borg's shattering standards, so he unsentimentally packs up the ones that go ping in the night and ships them off for restringing...
...center financially. A basement room decorated with film and travel posters is the center's Sobriety Society -the Soviet equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. There a young reformed drunk is sanding wood for a remodeling program that will expand the society's facilities to include billiards and Ping Pong...