Word: cafeteria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proceeding on his mad mission, Lepine went down to the first-floor cafeteria, where he killed three more women, then up to the third floor, where he gunned down four others. Besides the 14 women killed, 13 people, four of them men, were wounded. Finally the attacker turned the weapon on himself, blowing away part of his head...
...most poignant single tragedy befell the small (pop. about 1,200) community of East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller...
Teachers ran into the cafeteria rubble, clawing at debris to reach fallen children. Fire fighters sobbed as they freed trapped children, many of whom they knew. When the frantic rescue ended, seven youngsters were dead and 18 hospitalized, three with critical injuries...
Prince Edward County never had racial violence, or the lynching meanness that seeped up in those years in Alabama and Mississippi. But the bruise of the past is deep. The students segregate themselves, black clusters and white clusters, in the school cafeteria. They struggle to describe the abiding significance of race in Prince Edward County. They cannot quite find the word for what they suspect in the hearts of the other race. Not "prejudice." Not "hatred," not "intolerance," exactly. It is, they say, something hidden, and always there...
...Wilson High School as classes are dismissed for the day. Four students are shot, but all survive. Later, a teen-age boy who is not enrolled at Wilson is convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The spark for the mayhem: an argument over a seat in the school cafeteria...