Word: prank
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...family huddles around the Taos, N. Mex., bedside of an aged aunt to hear her final addled reverie of childhood, the dying woman whisks off a grizzled wig to reveal blond locks, sits bolt upright and brays delightedly at having sneaked in one last prank. At the sight of this transformation, the daughter's attitude shifts from terror to wonder. Moments later, she and the dying woman are jumping on the bed as though it were a trampoline, mingling the old one's romantic memories with the child's geography game in exultant shouts of "Zanzibar! Zanzibar...
...befits a precocious seven-year-old company, the workers at Sun Microsystems enjoy a good prank. On April Fools' Day last year they turned the office of their 34-year-old chairman, Scott McNealy, into a putting green with authentic sod. This year they wrapped their headquarters building in Mountain View, Calif., with a layer of plastic wrap...
...York University, that overactive mind seemed to be hunting for angles. Koskotas ordered a batch of N.Y.U. and Fordham University stationery from a printer. He said he wanted to send reprimanding letters to some student friends as a prank. The university believed he intended to create fake transcripts. He was arrested, fined $200 and asked to leave school...
...culprits were two mischievous freshmen who pulled the prank "just for fun," said one of the students, who refused to give his name. "We were watching 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,' and then we didn't have anything to do," he said...
...their latest Union prank, still-unidentified students painted white both a men's restroom door and the newly-installed gate that adjoins the dining hall, causing more than $3000 in damages...