Word: belabor
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...elected to Congress by Minneapolis neighbors who raised his funds and ran his campaign. In the capital he championed the cause of Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek when it was highly unpopular-a stand for which the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune still persistently belabor him. He thundered against the perils of the Chinese Communists, recently helped get statements from 7.000 Protestant clergymen backing his stand against U.S. recognition of Red China. He fought for foreign aid ("It offers the way to get the most security for the least cost") and help for Iron Curtain refugees ("Every...
...lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose the canker that lies at the heart of comedy. Ohio-born James Purdy, 34, writes in a manner that is all his own, using a prose at once precise and clumsy, almost...
Their use of the gag technique in Parliament will weigh against the Liberals in the next election campaign. The opposition parties, sounding off at a steadily rising pitch against U.S. financial control of Canadian industry, will belabor the government for its support of Trans-Canada. But if Alberta gas is gushing through to Winnipeg this year, the government will be able to point to a notable industrial asset gained, and to argue that the end justified the means...
...Democratic Party Deputies, and 5,000 other notables. A carload of fresh lobsters was shipped in from the Bosporus, and 1,200 lambs were slaughtered for a huge kebab feast. Pointedly, the 66 Deputies of the opposition parties boycotted the ceremonies, and Menderes seized the occasion to belabor his critics. "It is as sad as it is ridiculous," he cried, "that the so-called opposition members . . . are going to every inch of the country for the purpose of causing trouble without bothering to turn and look at even one single installation in the places they visit...
...hailing Bride-to-Be Margaret Truman, and sent it to the bride's father, Harry Truman. Back came a note of tempered gratitude in which Truman gruffed: "I suppose there has to be a first time for everything." But of the News, a Democratic paper that used to belabor Truman often, the ex-President of the U.S. huffed: "That paper has treated me like a pickpocket...