Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With parades, wreath-laying ceremonies and special Masses, Greeks this week will mark Ohi Day, one of their proudest national celebrations. It commemorates the day in 1940 when the government replied ohi (no) to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to allow his troops to occupy strategic points on Greek territory. Yet for a majority of Greeks Ohi Day came somewhat earlier this year. In a landslide election that brought to power the country's first socialist government, Greeks last week not only said ohi to the conservative New Democracy party, which has ruled for the past seven...
Although most of the teachers at Stuyvesant yielded to the chancellor's ultimatum, some may still refuse to write letters. "The union vote was rammed down our throat in a squeeze play and I will not be coerced to write recommendations," McCort said...
Under "a veiled ultimatum" from Frank J. Macchiarola, chancellor of New York City schools, the teachers at Stuyvesant High School voted over-whelmingly to end the boycott, Frank McCort, a teacher who voted against ending the boycott, said yesterday...
...They are squealing like they're sitting on a sharp nail simply because we now are showing the will that we are not going to let them get to the point of dominance where they can someday issue to the free world an ultimatum of 'Surrender or die.' " Reagan added that some of those "who under the name of pacifism in Western Europe" are opposing the decision "are really carrying the propaganda ball for the Soviet Union...
...taken place and that the possibility of replacing Slaton with a special prosecutor had been discussed. Slaton sidesteps the subject: "If I had attended a meeting in the Governor's mansion, there would not have been any pressure I recognized as such. Nobody ever gave me a threat, ultimatum or deadline...