Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-intentioned joke ended up bringing hordes of police and firefighters to the Business School yesterday afternoon to remove a bomb--which was in fact a deactivated hand grenade--from a student's mailbox...
After David Moyer, 26, a first-year MBA student, won the "bomb of the week" award for a comment deemed "most inappropriate" by his section-mates, he stored the prize in his dormitory mailbox while he went to lunch...
...about 12:45 p.m., a Boston bomb squad had arrived, the 50 students and staff members in Gallatin Hall had been evacuated, and reporters were pushing their way through a crowd of about 100 people in anticipation of explosive destruction...
Moyer was just finishing lunch and heading to his next class. Only about 20 minutes later, as the bomb squad safely carted away what was called a "practice" grenade, did the truth came...
When a dean pulled Moyer from class to ask why a bomb might be in his mailbox, the student said he had lost the keys to his room and had been late to lunch, so he thought he would "safely" put the device in his box until he could obtain a new set of room keys...