Word: pong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...Ping-Pong Gun, Portable Planetarium. The air branches of the services became the prime movers in the synthetic devices program. They have invented thousands of efficient gadgets, many of them still secret, ranging from a cardboard pocket blinker for practicing ship signals to a portable planetarium. Some others...
...that shoots Ping-pong balls, designed for studying the trajectory of machine-gun bullets...