Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search your soul and answer these and seventy-five other questions, have the Dean of your college countersign them, and submit your application together with five dollars, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, two weeks in advance, the stage door will remain shut to you, according to an ultimatum issued by the chorus of "Hooray for What?" at the Winter Garden in New York...
...funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...
...served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they did not feel like eating anything. Mr. Beamish's engineers stood around, not helping. A little less than three days after Lawyer Kelley delivered Mr. Beamish's ultimatum, the plant was finally producing 24,000 kilowatt hours out of its capacity of 37,000. Lawyer Kelley then relented, told the men the test was over and they could go home and get some sleep...
Leftist planes scouting over the Guadarramas reported new concentrations of Rightist troops near Guadalajara. Other sources reported nearly 100,000 Rightist troops going southward to join the Andalusian army of boastful "Radio General" Queipo de Llano. At week's end came a cracker. El Caudillo Franco issued an ultimatum to the Barcelona Government. The Negrin Cabinet must agree to an "unconditional surrender" before December 5 or else the long prepared Rightist offensive would start...
Striding forward, Commissioner Foote threatened to wipe out the entire settlement unless the Arab villagers produced and delivered to the British the aged Sheik Farhan al Sadi. After this 75-year-old Arab dignitary had been told of the British ultimatum, he crawled out of a wheat bin, gave himself...