Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most ambitious technique-enhancing device yet may be the robot that is helping prepare America's table-tennis team for Barcelona. Dubbed R-4 and costing $50,000, the robot can simulate the styles of the best Ping-Pong players in the world. A computer-driven motor that spins at 6,000 r.p.m. can shoot a ball at up to 60 m.p.h. "The robot eliminates the need to travel to China and Japan to practice against the best players in the world," says Olympic hopeful Sean O'Neill. "This is a training tool that allows you to practice against them...
...Forget Ping-Pong. These days China is crazy for HULA HOOPS. The fad has gathered speed as several People's Republic manufacturers have begun churning them out. Suddenly in Beijing, just about everyone from bus passengers and bicycle riders to students and bureaucrats is hauling around the brightly colored jianshen quan (body-building hoops). Many new aficionados, however, aren't sure what they should do with them. Some roll them like wheels, others twirl them around their arms. As soon as everyone catches on to the classic wiggle, get ready for a new Summer Olympics event. Beats synchronized swimming...
Call:A particular move. For instance, do sa do (do-see-do), allemande left, or more advanced moves like "ping-pong circulate" and "make an ocean wave" are all different calls...
Despite an overabundance of leather, the offices resemble living rooms. There are 14 dining rooms, a gym with a sauna and steam room, and a pool; the women's facility, by contrast, has been described as "six hair dryers and a Ping-Pong table...
...Harvard, this mind-numbing game of intellectual Ping-Pong has transcended the monotonous and entered the realm of the ridiculous. This April, after Hillel's Coordinating Council voted to condemn an antigay poster distributed by the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and agreed to co-sponsor a Holocaust memorial service with the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), AALARM co-founder E. Adam Webb '93 actually told The Crimson that Hillel was a "political, PC hack group...