Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paget ordered the mutineers to lay down their arms, submit to authority. The Greeks argued that they were merely staging a political demonstration. The British said that mixing politics with soldiering was a breach of discipline. When words failed, General Paget moved up a British armored force, issued an ultimatum...
...mutineers were defiant. They had plenty of food: from neutral Bedouins they bought sheep at $20 a head. They had artillery, mortars, tommy guns, armored cars. They waited. Just before midnight of the ultimatum's deadline their outposts heard British troops advancing...
Victory's Fruits. Soviet generals, headed by famed Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Stalin's deputy, issued an ultimatum: "We guarantee life and safety to all ... who cease resistance [within 24 hours]. . . . All... who surrender . .. will be immediately supplied with food...
...distance. Throughout the long printing process, two sets of every proof went to Sir William. He corrected and returned both. Sometimes he did his final editing on proofs, a practice which unnerves typesetters. The mangling got so bad that the Press almost lost its staff, had to serve an ultimatum on the editors...
...ultimatum will not be presented to Hitler's Government through diplomatic channels, but to the German people themselves, through every medium of propaganda and communication...