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Word: prank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan to throw a birthday party, said President Conan C O Brian '85, "but we'll probably stuff it with cottage cheese, maybe also with some chives Or else we may just spray it with some obscenity. It would be a good prank...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: 100 Dears of Solitude | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...outset, the 21 men had japed and jested like a group of sophomores about to be reprimanded for a prank. But for some of them, the humor led straight to the gallows. The men were among the 25 terrorists accused of attempted murder and conspiracy against Kuwait after seven bombs rocked the oil-rich gulf state one morning last December, leaving 60 wounded and five dead. "Long live justice!" cried one relieved young man among the spectators as Chief Judge Ghazi al Sammar declared five of the defendants not guilty. But in the course of his 15-minute verdict, Sammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Gallows Humor | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Conan C. O'Brien '85, President of the Lampoon, denied that his organization had anything to do with the fake Bulletin. "This wasn't really our style," said the leader of the social club that periodically publishes parodies. "We're too busy working on another prank, something like crumbling the government," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake Bulletin | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

...looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's a Geep | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Arabic script. This, too, was deemed unacceptable. This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink to the occasion. Had marauders from M.I.T. prepared an appropriate prank-last year they spent three weeks engineering the implantation under the midfield turf of a 4-ft. balloon, which they inflated and exploded by remote control in The Game's second quarter-the occasion might have been lightened, but this year they, too, failed to find inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: The 100th Classic | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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