Word: prank
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Neighborhood Kids' Prank...
...They weren't our rubbish cans or garbage cans from the dining hall," he asserted. "They must have been brought and lit by some neighborhood kids as in prank. Spontaneous combustion seems unlikely since everything was out in the open with plenty of air in the cans...
Local police authorities meanwhile squelched rumors headlined in the Boston Herald that the robbery was a "student prank" and that the money would be returned as dramatically as it was taken. One sergeant said, "I wish I could commit a prank like that...
...night while everybody is watching Karin dance Swan Lake, Margaret pulls a lever to put out all the lights. This winsome prank opens a trapdoor onstage instead. Karin falls through and injures herself so badly that she can never dance again. How Margaret suffers! But at last she confesses and Karin forgives her, partly because "she's a strange child," partly because "today is today...
...Minister Jan Masaryk, currently his country's U.N. delegate, to President Eduard Benes and others. Curiously enough, the bombs were intercepted without so much as a pop. Communists claimed that Benes and Masaryk had mailed the bombs to themselves. Others shrugged them off as a crank's prank...