Word: belabored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...
Whether Ford's labor relations will be come smoother is still a question. Young Henry thinks that they will. At least, he feels that Bennett's antilabor record will no longer be a club for unions to belabor Ford with, nor .target for bad publicity...
...Cause. Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way. But the general hustled out to enlarge the fortune he had made speculating in Chicago real estate, get himself elected Governor of Kentucky, belabor the reformers. At 62 he took a 28-year-old bride, and fathered the present lieutenant general...
Said a New Delhi newspaper: "You can belabor an elephant and he will not resent it, but a small irritant under one toenail may drive...
Since Westbrook Pegler is almost always attacking somebody, his attacks are sometimes embarrassingly ill-timed. Last week Pegler chose to belabor Navy Secretary Frank Knox; he was sore because Publisher Knox had "suppressed" Pegler's syndicated column in the Chicago Daily News (TIME, April 24). The reasons, according to Pegler: 1) the Daily News would print nothing unfavorable to Marshall Field because his Chicago Sun is a tenant of the News building; it would print nothing favorable to the Sun's powerful morning adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and his Chicago Tribune...