Word: belabor
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...foes hoped to nail his political hide to that barn door, they reckoned without the old Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up the highest international trade barriers in U. S. history) has lost some of its fighting trim...
...summer and was reported still to view Mr. Roosevelt's recently renewed Purge with alarm, when they came back from the ride it was understood that their differences were reconciled. It was soon afterward announced that Mr. Roosevelt would go into Maryland-to Denton on Sept. 5-to belabor anti-New Deal Senator Tydings, who last week seemed to be leading New Dealer Lewis...
...Montreal last week, a combined team of Montreal Maroons & Canadiens and a team composed of star players from the other six teams in the National Hockey League flashed across the ice and began to belabor the puck. Quickly the All-Star team began to pile up a 6-to-2 lead. Then suddenly in the last four minutes of play, the Maroons-Canadiens clicked. Three swift goals followed, then the closing bell. Winners by a breathless margin, the All-Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions...
Having thus disposed of General Dill, the New Zionists next proceeded to belabor British Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore and his department: "The Palestine Government has chosen to permit the threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...invite the collaboration of the U. S. Government in the Church's battle to the death against Communism. Again, he was going to do something about Mother Church's No. 1 demagog, Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. The- loudest Catholic voice in the land had continued to belabor the U. S. President in spite of the quietus which Vatican Voices supposedly had attempted to clap on him through his easy-going superior, Detroit's Bishop Gallagher, at Rome last summer (TIME...