Word: browbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rashid and Abu Ibrahim alternately cajoled and browbeat Awad into agreeing to blow up the Geneva Noga Hilton, which Abu Ibrahim said was owned by a Jew who he claimed sent a lot of money to Israel. Realizing he had got in over his head, Awad began avoiding Abu Ibrahim. Then one morning Awad went to his construction site at Baghdad's military airport and found that he and his 60 workers were locked out. The officer in charge said he had orders to shut down the job until Awad talked to Abu Ibrahim again...
Never has the U.S. inched toward a war so bloody with so little national debate. Bush would love to browbeat Congress into supporting a war by presenting them with a fait accompli. He knows that once a war begins, the already cowardly Congress will be even more reluctant to criticize executive policy. We, as members of the generation that would risk our lives to fight this battle, demand immediate action...