Word: ultimatums
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...have scraped out the bottom of the barrel and I have put a final paper on the table--it is an ultimatum...
...spent the next three years organizing the opposition to the Nazis. In 1938 he and his wife came to the United States to elicit support for the anti-Nazis cause, expecting to stay four weeks and then to return home. In the meantime, however, Hitler issued his famous ultimatum demanding freedom for Sudetanland. Several weeks later, Britain capitulated at Munich, and Deutsch was advised by Czech authorities not to return home for his own safety...
These demands for restraint went unheeded. Afghan officials later argued that they had received a ten-minute ultimatum from the terrorists, and had heard an unexplained shot inside the hotel seconds before they acted. At 12:50 p.m. Afghan army commandos and police stormed the room with a 40-second assault that one eyewitness described as "a complete holocaust" of gunfire and explosions. In the cordite smoke, Dubs was found slumped in a chair, dying of multiple wounds; it was unclear whose bullets had hit him. Afghan officials later exhibited what they claimed were the four bullet-ridden bodies...
...sources -were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran Air, as well as transportation, communications, customs and steel personnel. So did most of Iran's striking oilworkers, who were given an ultimatum: Return to work or lose your jobs. Although slowdowns in some refineries and rigs continued, oil production at week's end had rebounded to 3.2 million bbl. per day, more than half the prestrike output. Officials of the National Iranian Oil Co. hoped to have production back to normal...
...companion who had never read them attested. Perhaps Bakshi asked for a leap of imagination that was too great for me to make -- Tolkien certainly asks for one that is too great for many. But there is a difference between Tolkien's subtle, literary appeal and Bakshi's visual ultimatum...