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Word: prankster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has to be some explanation for the Crimson's collapse after the first period. Did some Yalie prankster tie Harvard's skates together? Was there a sudden outbreak of tuberculosis in the locker room? Did a drunken Zamboni driver miss a spot...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spouting Off About the Curse of the Yale Whale | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

Robert T. Morris '87-'88, who masterminded the "virus" program that immobilized computers across the country, studied computer security intensely while at Harvard, where he was known as a creative but innocuous prankster, associates said in interviews this weekend...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: 'Virus' Whiz Kid Morris Was Hacker, Prankster | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Some of the stiffest competition will come from those she trains with at the Palace of Sports in Minsk. During a relaxed warm-up, as a Michael Jackson tape plays softly over the loudspeakers, the individual personalities emerge. Natalia Lashchenova, who turns 15 this week, is the prankster, tripping her teammates when the coaches are looking the other way. Svetlana Boginskaya, 15, - the tallest on the team (a towering 5 ft. 2 in.), is the most serious, often perched on a mat between exercises with her nose in a book. Olga Strazheva, 15, has an appetite for science fiction. Svetlana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Sprite Fight | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...haired Stoll, 37, a systems manager at California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, knew something was amiss when one of the computers in his care revealed that an electronic trespasser was trying to use the lab's machines without providing a billing address. Suspecting the intruder might be a student prankster from the nearby University of California campus, Stoll launched a novel experiment. Instead of shutting out the interloper, he allowed him to roam at will through the system while carefully recording his every keystroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Bold Raid on Computer Security | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...party's foremost orators suffered severely with a stutter in his youth. In freshman Latin class at a Catholic high school, recitation was particularly difficult for young Joe. "Jimmy O'Neill, a great prankster, hung me with the nickname Impedimenta, Biden recalls. "I was the impediment." Over the next few years, the youngster shook his affliction. "I forced myself. I memorized passages and practiced a cadence." Despite the speech problem, Biden had the good looks and sincere geniality that won friends. "I always knew I had the ability to persuade people," he recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Joe Biden: Orator for the Next Generation | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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