Word: browbeaten
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...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...
...trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner said he would request a date for a retrial. DISASTERS Swamping the Capital...
...residents got lucky in a housing lottery, and they pay the same tuition as everyone else. This tuition then subsidizes their luxurious dining hall. Indeed, Dartboard struggles in vain to think of one way that the racket at Adams, in principle, is less nefarious than the capitalist patriarchies breathlessly browbeaten on leaflets around the Yard...