Word: ultimatums
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...Betty Bacall issued a brisk ultimatum to herself: "Damn it, straighten up! Pull yourself together and point yourself in the right direction. MOVE!" The move was back to work: "It helped me enormously. There's always something about making a decision in your life. It takes a load off your back." At work she found herself possessed of one of the strengths peculiar to the middle years: "It is necessary for anyone to practice his craft to do it well and to improve. But also, in a strange way you have to live a certain amount of life...
...magic in New York ?Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He was the only Republican winner on the state ticket. When Javits sought the senatorial nomination in 1956, the party's conservatives did their best to block him. He finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum: if the party rejected Javits, it could cross Whitney's gilt-edged name off its contributors' list. That time Javits had to run against another Democrat with a famous political name in New York, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and again...
That was well and good, but just as the Americans were beginning to breathe more easily, Tarn Chau went back on the offensive. He issued an ultimatum giving Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu 48 hours to resign, warned that if they did not meet his deadline all Buddhist monks would submit to "voluntary imprisonment...
...insist on transposing the "eternal truths" of Munich onto the conflict in Vietnam, but he refuses to question his interpretation of Chamberlain's failure. For example, Rusk claims that it was "necessary" for President Kennedy to "inform Mr. Khrushchev that the United States would not yield to an ultimatum concerning Berlin" in 1962, just as England should have demonstrated that it would not yield to the German ultimatum over Czechoslovakia in 1938. If Khrushchev had not believed that ultimatum, according to Rusk, "there would have been...
...airfield immediately. The marines first ordered the Vietnamese airmen to stop their flights. Then Colonel John Chaisson jumped into an armed helicopter, flew to Yeu's command post and had his chopper put down directly in front of the howitzers. In hard Yankee accents, he delivered an ultimatum: "If you make one menacing move toward those artillery pieces, we must consider you hostile. We will annihilate you." By now, five batteries of marine artillery were zeroed in on Yeu's command post. Armed helicopters and napalm-laden Phantom jets circled overhead...