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Word: pinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic Was W. H. (for Wilbur Hugh) Ferry, a vice president of the Fund for the Republic. A bristly liberal, who is the son of Hugh J. Ferry, onetime board chairman of Packard Motor Car Co., "Ping" Ferry,* an ex-newsman, ex-publicity man and former labor union official, got up before the Western states Democratic conference in Seattle to blast what he called some of the myths of modern America. Among the myths, said Ferry, was the one that pictured Communists as "nine feet tall, craftier than Satan, the most expert managers the world has ever seen, not human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Leave It to Experts | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...Grass Roots. The new Prime Minister, who by then dined almost nightly with Heath, made him Minister of Labor in 1959. when his government was step ping hard on inflationary pay raises. After only nine months at Labor, he was summoned by Macmillan and entrusted with the momentous job of getting Britain into Europe. He was appointed Lord Privy Seal, was also appointed to serve as Foreign Office spokesman in the Commons, since Foreign Secretary Lord Home sits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Crossing the Channel | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...Ping, Pang, Pong. The old. unhappy exile spun out his cantata in 29 scenes, but at his death, most of the orchestration was still incomplete; the rough score entrusted to his sister Maria contained as many as six alternate versions of some scenes. The job of selecting the best versions and of stitching the whole thing together was taken over by Spanish Composer Ernesto Halffter, a onetime pupil. Halffter was confident that he could remain true to the master's "musical tastes and ascetic conceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Falla's Last Dream | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Falla's Last Dream | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...Ping: faulty gas combustion or ignition timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Auto Talk | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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