Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peking's ultimatum was backed up by the thunder of the heaviest sustained artillery barrage the world has seen since the Korean war. Day after day. Red Chinese batteries rained 152-mm. and 122-mm. shells on Quemoy and the smaller surrounding islands of Little Quemoy, Hutzuyn, Tatan and Erhtan. It was a heavy shelling, but hardly the 122,000 rounds estimated by Nationalist headquarters in Taipei. Nationalists reported about 700 civilian and military casualties, killed and wounded...
...spent 3½ days in San Francisco briefing U.S. intelligence, settled in California, and tried to forget his painful experiences. He has never had a chance to forget: 17 years later, onetime Guerrilla Linehan, now 61, is still being deviled by Government bureaucrats. Last week came an ultimatum from Washington: Linehan could either defend himself in court or fork over the $554.89 that he owed the U.S. for his fare from Australia on a U.S.-owned troopship...
Faced with the Teamsters' ultimatum, the Inquirer's management quickly gave in, put strikers back in their old jobs. At week's end, the Daily News, also owned by Triangle, announced restoration of the Guild's old contract, agreed to negotiate a new one. Saved by the heavy hand of the Teamsters, the Guild was back in business in Philadelphia...
Abusive Building. When the mayor refused a request from the builders for water, the Baptists dug their own well ("God helped us find water"). Finally the mayor leveled an ultimatum: Take the "abusive building" down or the cops will...
Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...