Word: browbeaten
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Jenner and Capehart conceded defeat with as much bad grace as they could muster. Said the Senators: "We see no further good to be gained by having fine, loyal [Republicans] further threatened, coerced, browbeaten and tortured. Therefore, we are recommending to all our loyal friends that the Republican banner in Indiana fly under the leadership of George Craig...
...press conference in Joe McCarthy's office, assembled as the Stevens statement hit the wires. The phone rang. A newsman took down the Stevens text and read it to McCarthy, who uttered a dirty phrase. Stevens had landed a punch with the use of the word "browbeaten." McCarthy, who usually reacts at once, lapsed into two minutes of silence. When he spoke, it was slowly and deliberately: "I've very carefully explained to the Secretary that he is the Secretary and not running the committee. He knows that Zwicker was not denied counsel. He never asked for counsel...
...words forecast the kind of slugging tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see a supercilious bastard sit there and smirk...
...reporters while Kyes towered over him and Hagerty, a strong anti-McCarthy man, worked hard to keep his choler down. Stevens said that he had been misinterpreted; he wanted to make it clear that "I shall never accede to the abuse of Army personnel [or] to them being browbeaten or humiliated. I do not intend to allow them to be deprived of . . . counsel." He added that he had assurances from members of McCarthy's committee that "they will not permit such conditions to develop in the future...
...Constitution endows Congress with broad powers of investigation to aid the legislative process. But recent years have seen this power abused with increasing frequency as witnesses are coerced and browbeaten under the burning arcs of television spotlights. Last night, Law School Dean Erwin Griswold added his great influence to that of the many public figures who sharply oppose such committee practices. "If a man has done wrong, he should be punished," he said, "but the evidence against him should be produced and evaluated by a proper court in a fair trial...