Word: prank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a close friend of the Woods family and whose death Woods had criticized and questioned, ended inconclusively-although it did show, as Woods had charged, that the circumstances of Biko's death were extremely suspicious. The Woods family had also been angered and alarmed by a malicious prank that hospitalized their daughter Mary, 6. The child had received in the mail a STEVE BIKOT shirt that had evidently been dipped in some kind of acid; when she tried the shirt on, her face and eyes were burned. Most of all, Woods had grown restless and despondent...
...check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned out a railway workman had scribbled the words as a post-assassination prank...
...that pride is not shared by all the students. Vandalism is a problem; a favorite prank is to smash the school's two-story glass windows, which cost $700 each. Last year's damage bill came to almost $30,000 ?close to what the school spent on textbooks. The great majority of students could not care less about their school. "The school spirit...
...generals largely endorsed the academy's superstrict honor code but urged officials to differentiate "between a college prank ... and a serious intent to deceive, which compromises honor." For example, the study noted the "classic dilemma [of] whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation." As further morale boosters, the generals urged the Point to foster a sense of humor among cadets-and produce a winning football team...
...with One Black Shoe) juggles sever al subplots that are sometimes amusing but do nothing for the film's cohesiveness. The main one involves Rochefort's three colleagues in adultery - a sort of Gallic answer to John Cassavetes' Hus bands. Their best scene: on a prank, one of them wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant by flailing about disguised as a blind man. Then, after further appalling on lookers by lurching off into the night be hind the wheel of a car, he murmurs to his pals, "It was more fun at Chauveron...