Word: pong
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...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...
...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...
Facilities at the clinic include a pool where newly crippled children learn to walk, and a rocking bed which sways back and forth to aid in breathing. There is also an exercise room--furnished with stairs, the model of a public bus, and ping-pong tables...
...month that Tibet has been under Chinese Red attack, much of the news from the roof of the world has come from yak-drivers, muleteers and porters. Their hearsay and gossip, picked up at Kalim-pong, India's gateway to Tibet, became grist for a notable rumor mill (see PRESS) that had Lhasa lost, the Dalai Lama in flight, his army destroyed, his lamaseries in turmoil...