Word: browbeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cork the sympathetic Irish did what they could. Bustling, white-haired Mrs. Tom Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...terms as Iowa's governor, wavy-haired Robert D. Blue seemed to do his utmost to be unpopular. Aloof and often autocratic, he browbeat his legislature, gave little heed to rising growls from the voters. In Iowa such unpolitic conduct sometimes does not matter. A Republican could always count on enough organization votes in the primary...
...German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous...
...makes for a fair amount of pulpy entertainment, nicely paced and aptly delivered for the first hour or so, more & more tortuously protracted from there on out. Glenn Ford has a good deal of style as the young scoundrel, though he looks a couple of decades too callow to browbeat tungsten tycoons. George Macready, looking rather like an icicle outfitted by Wetzel, does nicely by his questionable assignment-which is to make a Nazi glamorous. But all in all it is Rita Hayworth's picture, and people who don't bother too much about the last several reels...
...third page, Jester had run another editorial disparaging "Your New Emergency Council" as a student governing body unrepresentative of the students: "Easiest-method of joining the Emergency Council is to browbeat ten students to sign a petition for one of those quiet elections which slip by every term or so. Since competition is rarely keen, this eliminating process often leads to what is known loosely as election...