Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little Rock and Virginia Beach...
...with students' "post- traumatic stress syndrome." Teachers and parents, experts say, need to bring fears immediately to the surface after a shooting or other violent episode and allow younger students in particular to act out and talk out the horrors they experienced. Adults are shaken as well. At the Greenwood, S.C., school, Principal Eleanor Rice lost 25 lbs. in the months after a 19-year-old man barged in, shooting at random, killed two pupils and wounded nine other people. To her, the new door locks and limited access to the building are not guarantees against future incidents, but they...
Detroit is solid, with its only loss being the Biggest (and the worst) of the Bad Boys, Rick Mahorn. Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, John Salley, Dennis Rodman, Mark Aguirre and Joe Dumars are the class of the league. Throw in free agent acquisitions David Greenwood and Scott Hastings for beef up front, and this team looks formidable. Only dominating centers such as Ewing, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and San Antonio's David Robinson can threaten the Bad Boys...
Addressing the House of Commons that evening, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to equivocate. He said that if the Germans did not stop their invasion, Britain would "be bound to take action." The House was furious at Chamberlain's delays, and when Arthur Greenwood rose to reply for Labour, Tory backbencher Robert Boothby called out, "You speak for Britain." Said Greenwood: "I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain and all that Britain stands for, and human civilization, are in peril...
...court's pronouncement involved the garbage of Billy Greenwood of Laguna Beach, Calif. In 1984, after learning from an informant that Greenwood might be dealing drugs and after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence...