Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spur of the moment kind of thing. It had a prank-like feel to it," the first-year said. "We made a mistake. We didn't think the matter [through] and acted impulsively...
...might have been done as a prank. Last week was hazing week," she added. "It's upsetting. Let's hope it'll be returned." Last week, various final clubs were inducting their new members...
...people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...
Some of these suspicions arise naturally from Carcaterra's incredible first-person tale. He and his three best friends, so he says in the book, grow up in Hell's Kitchen, a working-class neighborhood on the West Side of midtown Manhattan. An adolescent prank in the summer of 1967 goes terribly amiss and causes serious injury to an elderly man. As a result, the four friends are sent to an upstate New York correctional facility for boys, where they are repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured, physically and mentally, by four sadistic guards...
...letter he sent the San Francisco Chronicle to blow up an unspecified airliner at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials maintained tight airline and postal security despite a second letter from the Unabomber to the New York Times boasting that the threat was a hoax -- in his words, "one last prank." In yet a third communication at week's end, the bomber said he would desist from further killing attempts if the Times or Washington Post agreed to publish his anti-industrial, antitechnology manifesto...