Word: browbeaten
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...solve the housing problem, Secretary Goddard hires out her boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...Sometimes these groups can be made to see reason-sometimes they can be browbeaten into cooperation-but by & large they represent a serious menace to the unity of the nation, to the war effort and to the lives and futures of American fighting...
...plants will not bring the workers back to the assembly line. Once it has assumed control, the Army will find itself in much the same position with regard to the strikers as do the owners now. The determination of the Union, shown at its meeting yesterday, not to be browbeaten by President Roosevelt's threat of force provides an indication of how labor all over the country will react to the presence of two battalions of infantry in the offing. If the Army takes over in Inglewood tomorrow the strike will be farther from solution than ever...
Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...
...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...