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Word: pong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experimental tournament represents the larger efforts of the House athletic secretaries to increase participation in intramural athletics by including more non-varsity sports. Volleyball attracted some 400 participants this winter, and ping-pong and bicycle racing may be added to the program later this Spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Street Hockey to Break the Ice | 3/17/1973 | See Source »

...hilariously paralyzed by decorum. He is immaculately polite and sinister, whether ordering a libation or a liquidation. Pleasence's ambition is to run to ground an elusive agronomist portrayed by Vladek Sheybal, whose huge eyes pop out of his head like a couple of painted Ping Pong balls. Sheybal brings off a flaw less vocal impression of Peter Lorre, with the same slightly lisping tones that sound threatening and tubercular at the same time, as if he might run short of breath before he was through telling you to stick your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...with gems, spices and silks, in his tales about the wonders of the East. Now Westerners are getting a good look at what Marco was talking about in the first North American tour of the acrobatic troupe from the Chinese city of Shenyang. Unless one counts the Chinese Ping Pong team, the Shenyang troupe is China's first cultural export to the U.S. under the exchange agreed to last winter by President Nixon and Chou Enlai. It is a delightful debut, a cross between a Chinese circus and a ricksha pileup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tricksters' Ancient Art | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard ping pong team, in its first-ever intercollegiate match, dropped a 2-0 contest Saturday to cross-town rival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Trounces Crimson Paddlers, 2-0 | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

...case with most Harvard club athletics, the ping pong club is hard, pressed for money and facilities. Saturday's match was a good example of the latter, as the tournament was held in the Kirkland, Common Room, a facility that is somewhat less than ideal for intercollegiate athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Trounces Crimson Paddlers, 2-0 | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

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