Word: ultimatums
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...been a checkered and chastening year for the Rev. Oral Roberts, 69. Last January the Tulsa-based TV evangelist announced that if he did not receive $8 million from donors by March 31, God would "call me home." The money was raised, but Roberts' dramatic ultimatum provoked widespread derision. He drew additional gibes by declaring that his wife Evelyn had come to his rescue when the devil visited his bedroom and tried to strangle him. Then, in May, Roberts mailed 1 million packets of "healing" water to followers, advising them to use it to "anoint your billfold" to solve money...
...wine from the countryside near Lyons. Thus Pivot broke into the life of letters "totally by chance," as he recalls. "I could easily have gone into something else." In 1973 Pivot launched a literary talk show on France's main television channel, TF1, and was soon given an ultimatum by Le Figaro: TV or print. Pivot stuck with video, moving over to the state's new color channel, Antenne 2, in 1975 to start Apostrophes...
...vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." During student unrest in the '60s, he told the university community that protesters would be given 15 minutes to decide whether to desist or be suspended. Despite some grumbling from students, the ultimatum resulted in a calm few other campuses experienced...
However Israeli officials said in Jerusalem they would not respond to an ultimatum and would not conduct such talks in public...
Then President James Bryant Conant '14 gave theoverseers a ultimatum. "They could grant Galbraithtenure or find a new president," Says Blum. TheOverseers backed down...