Word: browbeating
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...eating food off other people's plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J. whipped a jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many people looked upon him as a heavyhanded man. That was not really true. He was sort of like...
...violation of a previous agreement with the U.S. But the State Department was not particularly anxious to pursue that point just now. A spokesman emphasized that the Administration was not contemplating a reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery attacks in Lebanon. Said one State Department official: "We don't want to be the ones to carry an arms reduction proposal up to Capitol Hill...
Ultimately, the best hope for beating inflation is not to browbeat industry and unions but to deal with the inflationary plague that is spread by the Government. Certainly wage and price restraint is important, and Stage II is better than outright controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would...
...them." Yet if the U.S. hopes to better promote the cause of liberal ideas in the future, it must learn to better understand these histories and experiences, in all their specificity. It is hardly likely that Moynihan, or an entire revitalized liberal elite, will be able to browbeat nations into democratic evolution...
...scene is vividly set-the metallic glare of the sun, the midday lulls during which the air sings with insects. The French merchants and their wives connive and squabble among themselves, fighting off the boredom and psychic impotence that come with their isolation. Missionary priests browbeat the natives for wood carvings, then ship the choicest home to be sold and burn the rest as being in "bad taste...