Word: pranking
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Last week, after seven days of searching, Kaplan's body was found spinning in a whirlpool at the base of a 40-ft. bluff near the site of the prank. Frightened and confused in the dark, he had evidently run the wrong way, plunged over the bluff into the flood-swollen Red River and drowned...
...hour-long prank is dangerous; this one was sheer disaster, and closed at week's end. Playwright Rice seemed to forget that cliches of satire can be every bit as mildewed as clichés of stagecraft. Result: an evening of heavy bowling balls that collided and careened while the tenpins remained untouched...
...letter last Wednesday to Major General Bryant E. Moore, superintendent of the Military Academy, Dodds said that he was embarrassed to learn of the student prank and added that those responsible would be appropriately disciplined...
...disappearance of both cups was first noticed October 31 but the master of Jonathan Edwards, assuming that he had a prank rather than a theft on his hands, merely posted a notice politely requesting the cups' return...
...York, and then again in Cambridge, where he was visiting on the occasion of a football weekend. He attracted considerably more attention in the Boston area, where newspaper readers, for instance, still seem to get a big kick out of a funny college tale. In New York, a prank must be of unusual brilliance to achieve recognition...