Word: cinquemani
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...last man to worry about such delays was probably Salvatore Cinquemani, a lean, leathery, 65-year-old Sicilian with a point of view of his own. By next month Salvatore would be the only private tenant left on U.N.'s rubble-covered property. His establishment was tucked in a corner of the site, overlooking the East River: two cinder-packed bocce courts (bocce is the Italian form of outdoor bowling), surrounded by knee-high board fences. Salvatore's customers were mostly shirt-sleeved, elderly men. When they were not playing they sat on orange crates and empty nail...
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