Word: ultimatums
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...Christmastide greeting to Little Rock merchants, an extremist group warned last week of "a massive crusade" against stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette (circ. 99,573). Said their mimeographed ultimatum...
Saito gives the ultimatum: work or die. To his astonishment, Nicholson calmly chooses to die, and his officers with him. Saito is forced to spare them, a fearful loss of face. And so begins a contest of chivalries-Bushido v. What England Expects-that hilariously exposes the ridiculous in what men fight for, and subtly reveals the sublime...
...prime consequence of Russia's celestial showpiece-the demonstration that Russia was no longer the inferior of the U.S. and could no longer be treated like one. The Western disarmament proposals "are conditions of the strong for the weak." he complained. "They sound something like an ultimatum . . . Mr. Eisenhower tries to deal with us as with his satellites . . . But one cannot deal with us in that...
...other truckers (TIME, Sept. 16), commission ordered one-year probation for Kansas City's big Riss & Co., whose 500-plus interstate trucks from 1951 to 1953 "were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in shocking total of 51 deaths and 501 injuries." ICC's ultimatum: Riss must drastically improve safety record or be barred from highways...
...invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum after another, but I couldn't advise accepting the last...