Word: pongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into West Berlin on the subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant...
...motion, but instead of colliding with one another every 10,000th of an inch, as they do at sea level, they travel many feet between collisions. When a solid body passes through such a rarefied atmosphere, it behaves as if it were moving in space containing a few ping-pong balls in rapid, random motion...
...faster the molecules move. When the temperature in the source chamber is 1,000° C., the molecules in the beam speed at 1,800 m.p.h. Models of aerodynamic surfaces placed in this beam behave just as if they were moving at 1,800 m.p.h. through the ping-pong-ball atmosphere on the frontier of space...
...every man who has been labelled a natural athlete were drafted tomorrow, none of the rest of us would ever have to worry about induction. Sports publicists --as opposed to sportswriters--love to work on a football player, for example, who also plays a bit of ping pong, and build him into the greatest all-superlative on two feet. (See a college football program for further particulars...
Because of the House Committee, one of the central entries has this year become an amusement center of sorts. Its basement boasts two ping-pong tables, a new pool table, a television room, and two drink machines which issue seven varieties of liquid between them. On every night except Saturday, the House Committee runs a sandwich counter...