Word: siting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Cambridge was the site of a City Council race that, while often bitter, was hardly revolutionary...
...approximately 10:20 p.m., a plunger was depressed and the cache detonated. Soon after, a Japanese patrol checking the site reported that it had been fired upon by Chinese troops, even though the local warlord, an ally of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had kept his soldiers in their barracks to avoid clashes. At 11:30 p.m., Japan's Manchuria-based Kwantung army began attacking Chinese positions. By dawn they were joined by planes from the imperial colony of Korea. Quickly, Mukden was effectively under the empire's control. In the following months, the resource-rich region, more than...
...half could remain an autonomous state under Petain, with its capital in the sleepy resort town of Vichy. But he insisted that the armistice be signed in Compiegne, just outside Paris, in the same railroad car where Marshal Foch had made the Germans sign the armistice in 1918, the site marked by a stone tablet placing blame for the war on "the criminal pride of the German empire." CBS correspondent William Shirer, who was standing nearby, reported that Hitler's face was "afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph." Once the armistice was signed, Hitler had the stone blown...
...store, as hardworking and quiet. His wife, who had studied criminal justice in college, was rarely seen without the children. Wyandotte + police chief Edward Rothermal assured the Detroit Free Press, "This was a loving couple, good family people." Hundreds of area residents left toys and flowers at the accident site, in memory of the lost children and in sympathy for the parents...
...anger at the father was added to sorrow for the children, Wyandotte residents last week were still visiting the site on Eureka Avenue. One young woman carefully placed four tiny stuffed animals beside the growing mound of pink carnations and red roses...