Word: ultimatums
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...when she was 18 and a college freshman, her sorority sisters talked about their sexual feelings only with extremely close friends, and nearly all gossiped about girls they suspected of having affairs. "Virginity was all important," Sue remembers. Then her boy friend of five years standing issued an ultimatum: "Either you go to bed with me or I'm leaving you." She gave in and was overcome with remorse. "My God," she thought, "what have I done? The more I learned about sex, the guiltier I felt, especially about enjoying it. I almost felt I had to deny myself...
...from overbearing Russian advisers; the implication was that they would not guarantee Sadat's continued presidency unless they received it. Whatever the bill of complaints, Sadat decided that he had to act. He dispatched Premier Aziz Sidky to Moscow for what some Cairo officials called "a final friendly ultimatum." By one account, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, returning from a vacation to meet Sidky, once more refused offensive weapons. Brezhnev reportedly dared the Egyptians to go ahead and toss out his advisers...
...poor third to Johnny Carson on NBC and network movies on CBS, drawing 13% of the country's insomniac audience-or about 2,170,000 households-compared with 32% for Carson and 27% for the movies. But his audience has grown substantially since ABC'S April ultimatum. In a few cities, in fact, he seems to have done astonishingly well; in Washington, for example, his audience has almost doubled...
PARIS--The Communist delegation to the Paris peace talks Thursday rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum, but hinted they might listen to any new proposal Nixon might make...
...former world chess champion (1935-37) and the president of the Fédération des Echecs (F.I.D.E.), the world governing body of chess: "I don't like Mr. Fischer in our chess world. He's a good player, but every day we are getting another ultimatum from him like this." Then Euwe issued an ultimatum of his own: if Fischer did not show, he stood to lose his right to play for the world title "not only this time but perhaps forever...