Word: browbeaten
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...soon allow its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate. "The Chinese know very well it's in their own interest to allow the RMB to rise a bit," a source close to Treasury in Washington said just before Geithner's surprise Beijing trip. "But they weren't going to be browbeaten into it." (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...Milgram found that 62.5% of his subjects could be encouraged, browbeaten or intimidated into seeing the test through to its conclusion by delivering scores of shocks of increasing intensity to the maximum of 450 volts. In The Game of Death, 81% of contestants go all the way by administering more than 20 shocks of up to a maximum of 460 volts. Only 16 of the 80 subjects recruited for the fake game show refuse the verbal prodding from the host - and pressure from the audience to keep dishing out the torture like a good sport - though most express misgivings...
...sense that Jennifer Aniston is not particularly happy in her skin. She's an example of someone who is sort of browbeaten by this pressure. You really want to say to them, "Relax and get away from all those men who you think it's better to be with because that proves that you're sexy and in love. Just chill and wait, and the right person will come along." (See pictures of showbiz supercouples at LIFE.com...
...politicians come out smelling like roses. (Not even David Heathcoat-Amory, the Conservative legislator, who put in for $591 worth of horse manure for his garden.) But as in any mess, that hasn't stopped the parties' getting political in their response. And Gordon Brown, Britain's already browbeaten Prime Minister, has had the worst of it. In response to publication Tuesday of his party's own profligate claims, Conservative leader David Cameron was quick to sound contrite. Tory MPs, he thundered, "appalled" by the detail, would be made to cough up for "excessive" claims. Rules on what...
...voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...