Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champion courts recognition; the hustler flees it. Only one sport is so obscure yet so popular that an ace can play both roles simultaneously. The game is Ping Pong; the hustling ace is Marty Reisman. Even in the '50s, when Reisman held the U.S. singles and doubles titles, he was unknown to more than a handful of table tennis freaks. To supplement his income, he played exhibition matches between halves of the Globetrotters' basketball games and conned wealthy amateurs into believing that they could beat him if he gave away 19 points and sat in a chair...
...could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across a table is like batting against Nolan Ryan from a distance...
...Government to attack the myriad federal laws and regulations that already benefit special interests - including portions of the Government itself - to the detriment of anti-inflationary policy. The economists denounced such contrivances as methods of restricting competition, propping wages at high levels and sustaining lofty prices for oil, ship ping, meat, even uranium for nuclear power plants. If the more invidious pieces of tailored legislation were repealed or amended, suggested Harvard Economist Hendrik S. Houthakker, the nation's entire price level eventually would be 5% to 10% lower than if no changes were made...
Balancing Wang's meteoric rise, moreover, was the re-emergence of several pragmatic bureaucrats who had been discarded during the Cultural Revolution - most important, former Party General Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, now a Vice Premier, who in recent months has taken over many of Chou's diplomatic functions. Teng is one of four high-ranking officials (referred to by some Sinologists as "the Four Horsemen of Peking") who are expected collectively to assume Chou's manifold responsibilities if the Premier should pass from the scene. The others: Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled former Finance Minister, whose...
When the visiting team puts men on base, the pitcher calmly switches to a ping-pong ball, a nerf ball, or even a medicine or bowling ball, thus halting all chances of a clean base...