Word: browbeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's simple, sufficient plot. The air in the Porters' dingy attic is thick with a one-way stream of recriminations; Jimmy has no need to beat his wife when he can browbeat her so effectively. At one point she leaves him; eventually she comes back, and the curtain falls on the same situation that prevailed before it rose...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel lost his composure ("I'm getting damned mad about this") and finally browbeat the Yankees into winning one. Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined for a 4-0 shutout, but at that only four hits came from Yankee bats all day-three of them by the rejuvenated Bauer ("Being a good loser is the bunk"), who knocked in all four runs with his third series homer, two singles. He still managed to get picked off first once again...
Lumps in the Throat. Arguing that diamond production should be held back during the Depression rather than let their value, in price and prestige, depreciate in a cheap market, he outtalked opposition directors, was elected chairman. De Beers became his. He still had to argue, cajole, charm, browbeat rivals, but he survived all challengers. At his direction, the cartel held diamonds off the market to keep prices up; it forced dealers to take lots (up to $50,000) or get none at all. But Oppenheimer successfully fought off a U.S. Government antitrust suit in 1945 on the ground that...
Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...
...ideas on how he himself must play the great game of government and politics. Regardless of criticism and a lackluster record of congressional achievement this session, he would continue in his conviction that the ground rules specify separate functions for the branches, that the executive should not attempt to browbeat the legislative. And if his tactics, when the capital season ended, lost a pennant, he was unapologetically ready to shoulder the blame...