Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every man who has been labelled a natural athlete were drafted tomorrow, none of the rest of us would ever have to worry about induction. Sports publicists --as opposed to sportswriters--love to work on a football player, for example, who also plays a bit of ping pong, and build him into the greatest all-superlative on two feet. (See a college football program for further particulars...
Because of the House Committee, one of the central entries has this year become an amusement center of sorts. Its basement boasts two ping-pong tables, a new pool table, a television room, and two drink machines which issue seven varieties of liquid between them. On every night except Saturday, the House Committee runs a sandwich counter...
Facilities at the clinic include a pool where newly crippled children learn to walk, and a rocking bed which sways back and forth to aid in breathing. There is also an exercise room--furnished with stairs, the model of a public bus, and ping-pong tables...
...permitting, he would take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...
Last week the Chicken Little economists were running about the U.S. shouting cries of alarm. "Catastrophic inflation" is coming, they said, and quickly. To be sure, they had felt more than the ping of a single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices...