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Word: pranking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either primary--cast their ballots for Wallace in an attempt to embarrass President Johnson. But Wallace's position had some appeal to the voters. It is hard to imagine 250,000 Republicans crossing over to vote for a man like Wallace out of sheer joy of playing a prank on Lyndon Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wisconsin | 4/9/1964 | See Source »

...surprisingly little abuse. The mail brings only about a dozen nasty letters a week (he never replies). None of the old friends he values have cut him. Two boys once burned a cross on the front lawn of his house, but to the judge that was only a boyish prank rather than an attempt to intimidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: A Lincoln Man | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

CHARADE. This parlor prank can't decide whether to be a farce, a sophisticated comedy, or an out-and-out thriller. But Gary Grant is in top form, Audrey Hepburn is in gowns by Givenchy, and murder most foul is in full color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).*Guest Stars Richard Basehart and Robert Walker Jr. turn a sidewalk prank into tragedy in "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr. and Rudolf V. Ganz jr., S | Title: Crime and Punishment in the University | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

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