Word: belabor
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...well-loved clergyman (Wyrley Birch) is shot through the head on a village street. There are no known motives, no clues, and it looks like an impossible case to crack. But someone must be tried and convicted, quick. Elections are near, and through their newspapers the political outs belabor the reform administration. Among innumerable stumblebums, the police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
...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...