Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room to Prank. By comparison with a city slum, an Appalachian holler offers an infinitely rich, exciting life, which mountain folk extol in a courtly tongue directly descended from their Scots-English ancestors, who first penetrated the region two centuries ago. Children have creeks to fish in, plenty of room to "prank," as their parents say. Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied...
...knowledge, vandalism of this kind has never been so widespread" Roberts said yesterday. But because the University acted so quickly, much of the paint was easy to remove, he said. As a result, it will not be the costliest such prank in recent years...
...momism, nepotism, space-age technology, dirty old men, antiSemitism, anything. They treat the audience to a series of small, distasteful shocks, but as black comedy gives way to bald effrontery, even the shock wears off The Loved One seems as crude and pointless as a schoolboy's Halloween prank like tipping over tombstones or throwing a stink bomb into the parsonage...
Harvard's "Anglican Bishop," a Winthrop House senior who blessed the football team at Saturday's Holy Cross game, was "admonished" for his prank by the Administrative Board yesterday. No further action will be taken against him, but an account of the matter will be placed on his record. He has written Holy Cross to apolegize...
...later that the purpose of the demonstration was to wish President Johnson a happy Easter and hope that the march didn't spoil his Easter egg roll. A few of their signs, urging the SDS-types to "Take A Bath," supported the claim that their rally was a harmless prank...