Word: browbeat
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...rape and murder, with his wife Nicole, who days before had had a hysterectomy. (Williams says the detectives never asked Nicole what she remembered, and she died of ovarian cancer three months later.) But it was at the station, in a windowless room, that the detectives began to browbeat Williams, and he began to, as he now puts it, "question my own memory." By his account, they told him they knew he was obsessed with Moore-Bosko and had raped and killed her. They told him they had an eyewitness who saw him leave the victim's apartment. (No such...
...remarkable turnaround at the company, which swung back into the black in 2004 after years of heavy losses. In September Chrysler reported its 18th consecutive month of sales increases. In the U.S., Zetsche quickly wielded that favorite American management tool: the hatchet. He axed 26,000 jobs and browbeat suppliers to lower costs, but he also introduced what he called "disciplined pizazz"--a program to bring a focus on efficiency to the company's business operations without sacrificing its character. The imperious Schrempp, by contrast, continued to lurch from crisis to crisis until the Daimler board showed him the exit...
...over their shoulder and attempting to solve every problem. David Stack Yorba Linda, California, U.S. Strained Relations Re Your story on President Bush's visit to Europe [Feb. 28]: Bush's purpose in crawling back to Europe was to thwart the development of a united Europe and to cajole, browbeat, scare or even threaten Europeans into submission to America's policies of global vandalism and institutionalized lawlessness. Some in the U.S. seem to think that the American dead in European war cemeteries are a more than adequate and compelling reason for European subservience to U.S. dictates. That is bunkum. Bush...
...natural-material playthings, given to her by liberals, which of course she never plays with. When another child ventures onto her turf and shows an interest in, say, one tiny stuffed llama made by Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot--visions of the Bush daughter in the limo, her tongue stuck out--a royal pain in the ass. I brood about this...
...sequence of the film is Bill O’Reilly’s on-air interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a Sept. 11 victim. Glick attempted to explain his opposition to Bush’s post-attack foreign policy; an enraged O’Reilly interrupted and browbeat his guest, even asserting that his father “would not approve of this.” Later, O’Reilly claimed Glick had “accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11 and murdering his own father.” Glick, of course, had said nothing...