Word: pingpong
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...their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped his mother to the "windmill" and gave it a gentle push to start it rotating. Behind the windmill were six pingpong balls balanced on tall pillars, and the idea was that Aal, dressed to kill in cowboy suit and ten-gallon hat, would knock down the targets with his .22-caliber rifle by shooting past his wife's rotating body, like a machine-gun firing through an airplane propeller...
...Hungarians shot with the accuracy of archers. It was Agincourt in reverse." The tabloid Daily Mirror and the good grey Times both had the same thought: "It was the twilight of the Gods." With wry humor the Express also noted a consolation: "England came back victoriously last night. Her pingpong players beat a Hungarian team...
Only 16 Played Pingpong...
...short, eight-hour period, some (at least 16 came to play pingpong, drink coffee and sing in Christian fellowship at one of our centers, and a few were innocently sightseeing) of these men did more to break down Japanese-American relations and to hinder the Gospel of Christ than years and years of constructive work, both diplomatic and spiritual, have done to build them up. The strife...
After the Sabre. On the Quonset wall of a pingpong room at Kimpo airfield, a crudely drawn cartoon sums up the pilots' feelings about the Sabre jet and North American Aviation, Inc., the Los Angeles company that makes it. The cartoon shows a MIG pilot, closely pursued by an F-86, yelling "Break!" as he clambers out of his cockpit armed with a large paddle against a watery landing. The caption: "Look to North American for leadership...