Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the geisha trade suffered yet another blow. With the government beginning to look into the once-secret and tax-exempt expense accounts that businessmen used for geisha parties, 20 of Japan's leading firms issued an ultimatum to their employees: no more parties, except for gullible foreigners. "Japan," says one oldtime patron of the Sumida houses, "is the land of the vanishing geisha. In the end they will wind up as purely tourist attractions-like the Navajo Indians." The plain fact is that the stylized coquetry of the classic geisha is no longer fashionable. "Frankly," said...
Callas had broken her contract, Bing explained, by backing out on her agreement (confirmed by her as recently as five weeks ago) to sing in three productions of La Traviata at the Met this season. After lengthy correspondence and, evidently, ample provocation from Callas, Bing wired her an ultimatum that if she did not agree-"by 10 a.m. Thursday"-to sing in Traviata or the substitute roles he offered her, her contract would be canceled...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 14--Britain today accused the Soviet Union of confronting the U.N. with an ultimatum by threatening to go ahead with nuclear weapons tests unless the Western powers agree to Soviet proposals...
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin immediately denied the ultimatum charge. He called on the U.N. to approve a Soviet-proposed recommendation that the Big Three suspend tests immediately and unconditionally for all time...
...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, in a letter to President Eisenhower, issued a virtual ultimatum that the U.S. must withdraw its forces from Formosa Strait, abandon not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa as well-or be faced by the combined might of Russia and Red China...