Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chronicle. The paper's owners, he explained, refused to go along with his Theory of Foresight. Fortnight ago, as the Chronicle dipped into the red, the owners fired 37 staffers while Smith was out of town. As soon as he heard the news, he hustled back with an ultimatum that either he would be consulted about such changes or he would leave. The feeling in the front office seemed to be that he had better leave...
...Secretary General Trygve Lie seemed last week to be veering toward a similar decision. On the heels of the grand jury's presentment, he sent an ultimatum to nine U.N. officers who had recently refused to answer questions before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee about possible Communist affiliation. Warned Lie: answer, or be dismissed. The nine were dismissed...
...been his classmate at Witwatersrand University. "I'll never forgive Swart," he said. Swart's ban on Negro gatherings preceded the riot. "If we leaders had been allowed to address our people, there'd have been no rioting," said Njongwe. "The government should issue an ultimatum," said one of East London's whites. "Hand over the murderers or we'll bomb the location to bits...
...Eliminate the sentimental mush or we withdraw!" Davison's ultimatum read. "The programms stands as originally submitted," ran the reply...
...nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group, but this would hardly stop them from getting together informal-like, and thinking and talking alike...