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Word: pinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writer Jack Skow started out thinking the story was simple enough. "Then," he says, "I found myself feeling as if I were trying to stop 4,000 Ping Pong balls from rolling off a table." Trying to pin down the mystique of Muppet mania, Skow first tried to attack the question scientifically, only to throw up his hands cheerfully in the end. Says he: "The trick in writing the story was to analyze the magic without destroying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Tricks | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

SATURDAY. While Begin stays in his cottage during Sabbath, others play Ping Pong and billiards. Sadat again up early, walking in woods, stays aloof even from his own delegation. Vance Aide Harold Saunders, after nightlong labors, produces first draft of American proposals. Americans spend all day working through three more drafts. (There will ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Summer School Ping Pong Tournament: All third round matches must be played by Saturday, August 5. An updated drawsheet is posted in the Dean's Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SCHOOL CALENDAR | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

Computer sales have long required Government approval. But the energy offensive is all new, and it brought a growl from Moscow, as well as a bitter response from American businessmen, disgusted at their new role as Ping Pong balls in East-West diplomacy. It also highlighted the longstanding sharp differences of opinion within the Administration over the wisdom of using trade to pressure or punish the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Squeeze on the Soviets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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