Word: capered
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...diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college on Chakpori hill to the barricaded main avenue of Barkhor. Rifle fire and the hammer of machine guns rattled the windows of the Indian consulate general...
Zombis in Hipster-land. This bizarre rite, called the "cinnamon caper," is disdained by Author Gutwillig's hero Tom Freeman, but he and his pals indulge in such mellow old youth-novel capers as fornication, abortion, homosexuality and illicit Negro-white love affairs. These goings-on take place at or near an Ivy Leaguish college named Arden that physically resembles Cornell, but the true locale is hipsterland, and the hero's quest for identity is as manic as if he were looking for a hypodermic needle in a haystack. Stylistically, Author Gutwillig tries to evoke Scott Fitzgerald...
...that she made fans of the judges clustered around the rink at Paris' packed Palais des Sports, easily won the women's world figure-skating championship for the third year in a row. In the men's competition, front-running Tim Brown capsized during a challenging caper, and Colorado's Defending Champion Dave Jenkins, 21, came back to win for the second straight year...
...kind of caper-cutting that previous generations took for a healthy sign of youthful high spirits-and sometimes mistook for a symptom of intellectual fire-has lost much of its appeal. There are some high jinks, but today's students go steady, marry early, refuse to worship the football hero, mostly leave the cheering of teams to the alumni. "Such irrational actions as riots are too much of a risk," says William Zabel, president of Princeton's debating society. "Anything you do out of the ordinary brings ridicule...
...baseball) with the Jesters. The Kings had lost, refused to pay off a 50?-a-man bet on the game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...