Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pusey, Bunting, Johnson, and Weisner went sets of brass plated bookends engraved with the seal of Cambridge. Pusey was speechless but managed an appropriate thank you. Bunting went up to the podium to pose for one of the pictures on this page and she and Vellucci discussed their upcoming Ping-Pong match for the Currier House tournament. Last year they were unable to play because Bunting was eliminated in an early round...
...leading candidate appears to be Fred Ferdindoupolus, three-time Crete Ping-Pong champion. "I plan to throw in my 100-page thesis on "Classic Lines in Ancient Greek Ping-Pong Courts" and see how it bounces, ha ha ha," Ferdindoupolus said...
Soon the mixing machine starts throwing around the numbered ping pong balls, which are picked out one by one by Jack, the caller. The sweat is rolling out of Helen's sleeveless dress and down her arm. She's oblivious; all she reacts to are the numbers...
...They are shooting blanks -they are shooting blanks," thought Kent State Journalism Professor Charles Brill, who nevertheless crouched behind a pillar. "Then I heard a chipping sound and a ping, and I thought, 'My God, this is for real.' " An Army veteran who saw action in Korea, Brill was certain that the Guardsmen had not fired randomly out of individual panic. "They were organized," he said. "It was not scattered. They all waited and they all pointed their rifles at the same time. It looked like a firing squad." The shooting stopped-as if on signal. Minutes later...
After finishing off Thomas and Roth. Ming and Chan rapped with the other competitors about the heavies on the table tennis tour. Once in a while they got up to win a match and when it was over they walked away with the trophy-a ping pong player perched on top of a base. The player looked more like a soldier than a nice guy playing a nice game...