Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold afternoon in February 1945, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky buzzed into Bucharest, bustled over to the palace of 24-year-old King Michael and banged out a desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which...
...Christmastide greeting to Little Rock merchants, an extremist group warned last week of "a massive crusade" against stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette (circ. 99,573). Said their mimeographed ultimatum...
Saito gives the ultimatum: work or die. To his astonishment, Nicholson calmly chooses to die, and his officers with him. Saito is forced to spare them, a fearful loss of face. And so begins a contest of chivalries-Bushido v. What England Expects-that hilariously exposes the ridiculous in what men fight for, and subtly reveals the sublime...
...prime consequence of Russia's celestial showpiece-the demonstration that Russia was no longer the inferior of the U.S. and could no longer be treated like one. The Western disarmament proposals "are conditions of the strong for the weak." he complained. "They sound something like an ultimatum . . . Mr. Eisenhower tries to deal with us as with his satellites . . . But one cannot deal with us in that...
...other truckers (TIME, Sept. 16), commission ordered one-year probation for Kansas City's big Riss & Co., whose 500-plus interstate trucks from 1951 to 1953 "were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in shocking total of 51 deaths and 501 injuries." ICC's ultimatum: Riss must drastically improve safety record or be barred from highways...