Word: browbeating
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...your article "Dissension Among the Democrats" [Feb. 3] you said that Congressman Wayne L. Hays "used his chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ... to reward friends and browbeat enemies" and that "he misled the 75 incoming freshmen by implying that he alone had been the source of the funds that helped elect them, even removing names of other party leaders from the letterhead of the campaign committee's stationery...
...terrorizing elevator operators, barbers and restaurant employees. In scrapping to retain his post, Hays promised to raise the per diem expense allowances for traveling Congressmen from $35 to $45. He has also used his chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which dispenses campaign funds, to reward friends and browbeat enemies. He misled the 75 incoming freshmen by implying that he alone had been the source of the funds that helped elect them, even removing names of other party leaders from the letterhead of the Campaign Committee's stationery...
...appeal of this contumelious parlor rat race, Author Brady suggests, is that it permits respectable citizens to cheat and browbeat with impunity as they seek to amass paper fortunes and drive other contestants into bankruptcy. "It is a game," in one buffs words, "in which everyone loves to hate his neighbor." The Monopoly Book, however, gives the player more of a chance to rely on intellect than odium. Starting from the beginning, when each player has an issue of $1,500 in scrip, Brady gives advice on which property group to buy and develop, how many buildings...
...final by West Germany, 1-0. Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat the I.O.C. into banning white-supremacist Rhodesia from participating. One supporter of the boycott threat was Uganda, which is currently exiling 55,000 of its Asian citizens...
...word here on the band. Van Morrison has always had trouble with bands; it's a function of his temperament. He broke up his band right after Tupelo Honey, fired his manager, and then let Warner Brothers browbeat him about a tour--to capitalize on his popularity, presumably--while he collected himself and a new band. This band, its members unfortunately anonymous, is as good a group of musicians as Van has ever had to play behind him. They blew tight rock when they had to and, more difficult, knew precisely how to play softly, and to hold the chords...