Word: belabored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then his wife Fay sued him for divorce, complaining that he gave her only $10 a week to run the house and was wont to belabor her and the three oldest of the four kids with a blackjack. Reformers started a recall movement, and Attorney John J. Fish slapped a $100,000 libel suit on Orville for accusations he had made while electioneering. The mayor talked his wife into dropping the divorce suit and outwitted those who wanted to recall him-but he lost the libel suit...