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Word: pranking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD dispatched units to investigate a report of two males in tuxedos blocking people from entering the Yard unless they had a Harvard ID. Police discovered that it was part of an initiation prank for a Harvard club. The two men were advised to move along...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Three MIT students involved in a Halloween prank that went awry were ordered Friday to pay $1,306 to the city of Cambridge...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Fines Three MIT Undergrads For Prank | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...prank backfired when the device exploded in a student's hand...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Fines Three MIT Undergrads For Prank | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...senseless," and "in vain." A&M's Corps of Cadets (the largest ROTC unit in the United States) was described by Sports Illustrated as "a campus clique whose members shave their heads and wear military-style uniforms." The mass media dishonorably framed Bonfire as something akin to a fraternity prank...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, A LITTLE PAST LITTLE ROCK | Title: "We Need CPR and First-aid . . ." | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...wack. And I don't mean that it's incomprehensible--like Mission Impossible or The Thin Red Line. The movie is so deliberately logical and well thought out that you find yourself nodding with your mouth wide open in shock. (You gotta love Spike Jonzes. First came that prank he pulled on the MTV Video Music Awards as a slightly retarded "dance troupe" leader, then came the scene-stealing in Three Kings and now prancing Malkoviches! He might single-handedly move us out of the Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers gross-out comedy era.) Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's IN THE [K]NOW: A Pop Culture Compendium | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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