Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last prank took place a few years ago, when students painted a red and yellow dress on a Henry Moore sculpture. The university has no rules against drinking on campus because no one drinks anything stiffer than orange juice...
...accept his authority, but anyone who questions it is in for trouble. One wayward student locks the great man in his office, forcing him to make an undignified exit down a ladder from the window. An outraged Prescott takes his revenge by making a moral issue of the prank and ultimately hounds the boy to suicide...
...former ambassador to India refused to discount the letter as a student prank. "It doesn't sound like a normal student joke to me," he said...
...such frequently sophomoric social satire is what's wrong with Flicker's cinematic prank. What's right with it is its irrepressible urge to let the plot go hang and take up more amusing matters, some of them crude, some of them nude, a few of them downright sidesplitting...
There is considerable concern among housemasters, particularly in Dunster and Kirkland, that students may have taken the trophy as a prank. Police detectives do not necessarily consider grand larceny a prank...