Word: ultimatums
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...underpopulation caused the Pentagon to warn the Harvard unit that it must enroll more students or suffer termination. Taking the ultimatum to heart, Harvard officers began a vigorous proselytizing campaign which substantially refilled the Air Force's ranks. They attracted 37 freshmen, all of whom desired flight training. But, despite the increase, the Pentagon decided to evict the local unit...
...compelled WBS to shut down because excess radiation from their coaxial cable to the dormitories interfered with commercial radio stations in the Wellesley area. WBS had hoped to delay this suspension until Christmas, but was forced to respond immediately to the FCC ultimatum...
...neutral, but young Farouk was suspected of intriguing with the Axis. At a critical moment in 1942 when Rommel was only 40 miles from the delta, the British, fearing treachery in their rear, surrounded the Abdin Palace in Cairo, and a tough British ambassador presented Farouk with an ultimatum: put the pro-Allied Wafd in power or be exiled. Farouk signed the order, smiling: "You will live to regret this...
...second ultimatum went to the NNSC: get out by Aug. 14, or be put out bodily. "The U.S. seems to be unable to settle this question for us," said Rhee. "The government has no other course but to deal with the Communists directly...
...never found Communism to be a conspiracy. Out here in this rural area it was more of a Kaffeeklatsch." Mrs. Landy said she quit the party about eight years ago, but still misses her comrades. Why. then, did she leave them? Said she: "He [Eugene] gave me an ultimatum-to quit or he would leave home; to choose between him and the party." Then she added: "I chose him." Which was more than the U.S. Navy could...