Word: ponged
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...weeks of back-and-forth salvos between the paper’s editorial page and UC president Matt W. Mahan ’05—smoothed their differences over gallons of cheap alcohol. As the busts of sober Harvard alumni frowned down from the walls, ping-pong balls and sprays of beer flew across the wood-paneled, hallowed halls of the Sanctum...
...vehicle as improbable as it is revolutionary. The size of a small biplane, SpaceShipOne is a shell of woven graphite glued onto a rocket motor that runs on laughing gas and rubber. The nose is punctuated by portholes, like an ocean liner. Inside, the critical instrument is a Ping-Pong ball decorated with a smiley face and attached to the cabin with a piece of string, which goes slack when the pilot reaches the zero-gravity of suborbital space...
...decision, rather than just acquiesce. Purvis, for his part, does a fine job of bringing Bohr and his contemporaries alive with animated caricatures. Together, Purvis and Ottaviani's portrait of Bohr reveals a deeply principled, humble man who could be as playful (using spinning tops and ping pong balls for inspiration) as he could be serious minded...
...make s’mores in the oven at 2 a.m., and we’d sit in our pajamas around the kitchen table and leaf through the New York Times, reading aloud the choicest sentences to each other. And though she’s never coached my ping-pong ball throwing skills, she’s always told me to stop working and relax...
...more than well-versed in treating cases of alcohol poisoning, but the only problem is getting students treated in the first place. Logic would seem to dictate that turning oneself over to employees of the University after losing 12 consecutive games of beer pong must result in disciplinary action. As such, many freshmen interviewed for this story said that, prior to treatment, they would not have gone to UHS for alcohol-related maladies except, perhaps, as a very last resort...