Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
...weeks ago raucous Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, issued an ultimatum: rail shipments of coal would be embargoed unless something was done about the laggard cars within twelve hours. Canadian bigwigs hurried to Washington, agreed to cut the adverse balance to 8,000 cars of all types, even if it meant returning them empty...
...Manhattan, an apartment-house tenant last week was handed an ultimatum from his landlord. He could either buy his apartment for $10,000 or he would have to move out to make room for someone who would. When the tenant took his troubles to the Office of Rent Control, he found-along with hundreds of others-that the new rent-control law had a loophole. And landlords, chafing under rent ceilings, had found it. They could sell their apartments to tenants-or outside buyers-as "cooperatives," without so much as a by-your-leave from...
...Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
Stake-$100 Million. The bloodless Nicaraguan explosion had been set off by Arguello's reckless ultimatum to Somoza to get out of the country within 24 hours. Somoza was of a mind to take a powder. After all, he was due for an operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...