1.   The clatter of a crowded cafeteria.

2.   In late afternoons of my first term, I began to dread mealtime and the prospect of eating alone once again in a crowded dormitory cafeteria.

3.   Tears flowed from a dank loading dock to a crowded cafeteria counter to the chandeliered corridors of power.

4.   A bomb exploded in a crowded cafeteria on Thursday in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, injuring six people, news reports said.

5.   On Wednesday, two masked gunmen in a hospital in the Paris suburb of Villejuif ambushed two guards while they were filling an ATM machine near a crowded cafeteria.

6.   Students returned to a parochial school Friday to pray for two eighth-grade girls involved in a shooting two days earlier in the crowded cafeteria.

7.   The casualties all occurred in the crowded cafeteria of the Valencia branch of Corte Ingles, a nationwide department store chain, police said.