Word: browbeaten
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...total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment, mail from home that been withheld, and often a reprieve from a death sentence passed by a communist court...
...just short of death; unshaven, without haircuts or baths for as much as a year; men in rags, exposed to the elements; fed with carefully measured minimum quantities and lowest quality of food and unsanitary water . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish...
...Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make Thurber fans wish Bosustow & Co. would try The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Bear Who Let It Alone and The Fairly Intelligent...
...Army's policy pendulum swung too far. By 1944, battle-weary men were being browbeaten into going up front after insufficient psychiatric care, and they were being separated too long from their own units. Yet there was real progress in the fact that a psychiatrist was assigned to nearly every division; in the later stages of World War II about 60% of psychiatric cases went back to combat, while 30% more were fit for some kind of military duty...
...that are always happening to his readers, Hatlo at 55 has become one of the best-known cartoonists in the U.S. His two-panel cartoons are populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously on his way to his first dinner at Bigdome's house, dropping his false...