Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in India (1865), where his father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the happy company of his cousins, the Burne-Joneses, whose house was loud with jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went...
...discourage and paralyze the initiative of many British statesmen. In a most vigorous speech at Albert Hall when he was 37, the future King urged with respect to unemployment, "So far as it is humanly possible, let us break it up into little pieces and refuse to be browbeaten into paralysis by its size...
...have been answered with enthusiasm only by his old mother. Then German police arrested Bulgarian Dimitroff in their frantic efforts to arrest almost anyone except the Nazis who everyone believes set fire to the Reichstag (TIME. March 6, 1933. et seq.). It was assumed that innocent Communists could be browbeaten before the German Supreme Court into confessing that they had set the fire, or at least that their mouths could be stopped by execution. In stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During the trial, fiery Bulgarian Dimitroff not only studied German...
...review of the Legislative Committee's investigation of radicalism at the University of Chicago (TIME, June 24) is as misleading as the idea that anything but a whitewash was conducted, except for Senator Baker. At the farcical hearings every anti-Communist witness with evidence on the subject was shamelessly browbeaten, insulted and repressed...
Interested spectators at this domestic duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute and abstracted gesture which somehow makes hugely eloquent his character's total dimwittedness...