Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the Americans, the whole morning had a dreamlike unreality. Disbelief had been the overwhelming first reaction -- this couldn't be happening, it was a trick, a drill, a silly rumor, a prank -- disbelief and then pain and then anger, and still disbelief...
They remember the 20 unanswered points that Yale scored in the first half that put The Game out of reach and made the wait for an M.I.T. prank the only suspenseful part of the afternoon...
...third thing we say is we cannot be diverted from what is most important about this act of vandalism by debating whether it was a prank or an act of racism or anti-Semitism. The absence of some of the explicit evidence of a hate crime, such as slogans or swastikas, does not alter the implicit experience of many who feel the consequences of the crime most directly...
...final word to the vandals. Perhaps you would deny any racist or anti-Semitic motivation. Perhaps you believe you were just letting off some steam with a harmless prank. That you could continue with such illusion and ignorance bespeaks a need for a response full of both candor and compassion...
...honor. It had become more than a prank," he said...