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Word: schoolyard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid, and he thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kentucky: Another AK-47 Massacre | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play in a major portion of the schoolyard because of nearby power cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Panic Over Power Lines | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...Schoolyard Talk by Julio Varela is a new weekly feature of The Crimson sports pages...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Silence in Dallas and Madness in March | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

California Attorney General John Van de Kamp could be forgiven his 20 seconds of melodrama. His state was still reeling from the massacre wrought when a crazed man murdered five children in a Stockton schoolyard, wounded 29 others and a teacher, and then killed himself with a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Weapons, Will Shoot | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...killer sprays a schoolyard with gunfire, police wage an arms race with trigger-happy criminals, and frightened citizens flock to buy firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 6 FEBRUARY 6, 1989 | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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