Word: ping
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Borg says. "The strings will break, ping, ping, ping." Mike Blanchard, 73, a tennis umpire at international competitions for five decades, has seen his share of tennis players, but he has never seen racquets like Borg's: "It's like playing with a board. The ball jumps off the racquet so fast because there's no give to it. The reason other people don't do it is they can't get control. But Borg just caresses the ball...
...baseball players, who view damage to a favorite bat as a death in the family. Only two men in the world, one in Stockholm, the other in New York, are skilled enough to string racquets to Borg's shattering standards, so he unsentimentally packs up the ones that go ping in the night and ships them off for restringing...
...center financially. A basement room decorated with film and travel posters is the center's Sobriety Society -the Soviet equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. There a young reformed drunk is sanding wood for a remodeling program that will expand the society's facilities to include billiards and Ping Pong...
Monday morning's sun brought on faint hopes that Alex Nahigian's Crimson baseball team would finally be able to practice outside. Accordingly, I ambled down around two to watch the batsmen in action on the turf, but by that time the sky was dark and gloomy and the ping of horsehide-on-aluminium echoed out of Briggs cage. Damn...
...Dakota and Minnesota. His expertise at pointing out the finer points of the brown and barren land exemplified the extraordinary character of pilots who pick up riders. Like all kind hearted pilots he flew with a placid grin and talked on topics ranging from the future of Teng Hsio-ping to the amount of coal in South Dakota. He was one of the elite of American travelers, who moved not necessarily to see places but to feel things. He was free of the marital problems, heavy loads, and speed ridden sorties of American truckers. He was above the bourgeois cares...