Word: browbeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy knows him very well indeed. Stocky and bald, the fiery Admiral possesses a quality much rarer than courage in battle: an absolute fearlessness of superior rank when one of his pet projects is involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark plug behind the Navy's development of radar. Last fortnight the Navy showed that...
...Lost Man. One day a London newspaper broke into Professor Sakimura's seclusion, broke apart his life with a lurid account of his turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
...MANY BONES - Ruth Sawtell Wallis - Dodd, Mead ($2). How the disappearance of a domineering widow, who browbeat the staff of a Midwestern museum, led to grisly discoveries by a young anthropologist and his pretty assistant. A mixture of shivers and sprightly talk...
...miles. But Count Teleki had to pay for these gains. Last year Hungary issued over 6,000 transit visas to Nazi fifth columnists entering the Balkans disguised as tourists. Premier Teleki also obliged by letting German fighting forces and their supplies pass freely across Hungary on their way to browbeat Rumania and Bulgaria. But when he was asked to help invade Yugoslavia, with which Hungary signed a "pact of eternal friendship" only four months ago, Teleki's unrelenting conscience toppled him off his tightrope...