Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midweek Tito had returned to Belgrade. When he showed himself at the construction site of the new city of Belgrade, he was greeted by a popular demonstration. "Tito-Party! Tito-Party!" the comrades chanted. Way off to the north, like an echo, a Dane withdrew from the Danish Communist Party. "I want to join Marshal Tito's brigade," he said. The Tito Party might be contagious...
...This was the site chosen for the GOP and Democratic conventions...
...last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters...
...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 kegs, playing cards...
Coffee House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...