Word: browbeats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted and browbeat me on the campus...
With the Confederacy's collapse, Stevens was the driving force behind all measures to grant the Negro full citizenship, to hold the South in military bondage. When Johnson opposed him with Lincoln's moderate policies, Stevens organized his impeachment, marshalled the Republican radicals, browbeat the wavering, traded and intrigued. Failure to impeach Johnson was a severe blow to the aging, implacable Stevens. Shortly afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this...
Last year Louis R. Chauvenet '41 broke all previous records in wining his subscription. The chief stumbling block in past races has been procuring the all-important signature of the adviser, but Chauvenet browbeat his mentor into swift, unargumentative submission...
Most of the wives vote as their husbands do. "I don't browbeat her, either," one man comments. "Only after considerable argument," another one adds...
...pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According to Paris dispatches, Britain and France were now ready to concede...