Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should aid us from the general funds of the University." This statement in Mr. Bingham's first report to President Conant reveals the state of mind to which a prolonged and relentless budgetary deflation has brought the officials of the Athletic Association. Coached virtually in the terms of an ultimatum, it is a declaration that the B.A.A. has reached the end of its rope, that the process of cutting and cutting and then cutting some more, can go no further, that from this point on it is up to the Corporation to say how the athletic budget shall be balanced...
...Your ultimatum to the Fukien rebels has expired," correspondents reminded the Nanking Government's Foreign Office spokesman last week. "Why don't Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops advance and fight...
...reliably reported that Mr. Peek served an ultimatum to the effect that unless Mr. Tugwell was taken out of the agricultural building he himself would resign. This may be an exaggeration, of course, of the way Mr. peek feels about it, but there is no doubt that friction has developed, and that Mr. Roosevelt has the task of bringing about harmony...
...drilling, trampling foolery in the heart of Europe," said H. G. Wells of Hohenzollern Germany, and twenty years later he finds his echo in the columns of the London Graphic. Great Britain, according to the Graphic and the Referee, wants peace, and to that end will force an iron ultimatum upon the Nazis, but the Graphic somewhat unfortunately goes on to say that Great Britain will build a hundred airships in any case. Daladier rumbles out even stronger threats; Switzerland insists that the German offensive will cross her soil, and only from Doorn and from the perspiring Nazi emissary...
...hand in the Government. They gave as the first condition of their support that he resign. Scoring their "impertinence," President Grau San Martin nevertheless had good grounds for fearing last week that he was about to pass on into History. While a coalition of his opponents mulled over an ultimatum to serve on him, President Grau San Martin philosophically announced: "The person who occupies the government is unimportant; the fulfillment of the revolutionary program is the thing...