Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that ultimatum Harvard swung into action, proposing that the library corporation use three acres of the Business School land in Allston for a museum site. The offer was doomed from the start. Although residents of the community behind the MBTA yard site supported the Allston plan, residents of the Riverside community of Cambridge, immediately across the river from the Allston site, rejected it. The plan failed to meet Smith's requirements...
...Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply: "To the German Commander-Nuts!" The "Screaming Eagles" hung on for five bloody days until the siege was broken by armor under General George S. Patton, who pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on McAuliffe...
...arms requests from the Rabin government-a not so subtle pressure on Jerusalem to yield. Ford called Dinitz to the White House to discuss the Egyptian proposals on the Sinai. In Israel, there were exaggerated stories that the President had given the ambassador a "brutal" ultimatum to make concessions or risk losing U.S. support. Ford denied that he had given Dinitz any ultimatum but insisted that a Sinai deadlock was "an open invitation to war." Unless the deadlock ends, Ford indicated, the U.S. may be forced to agree to a Geneva conference, which it does not really want under such...
...resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized the U.N. and other channels of communication, issued no ultimatum and authorized no acts of punishment or retaliation...
...Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...