Word: belabored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles, however, saw, or thought he saw, an opportunity to belabor the Russians for pricking the bubble of Geneva. This sort of tactic, of course, departs from...
Critics who deplore this trend and hope for better things are often laughed at. Laughter, in turn, can make for bitter or even bigoted criticism. Rodman, aware of the danger, does not hesitate to belabor some people in his own party. Among others, Rodman sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand...
...please the left. Hatoyama himself seemed to believe that the U.S. should welcome improved relations between Japan and Red China as a means of reducing his country's "anti-American feeling." Hatoyama was talking more and more last week like a man who found it profitable to belabor the U.S. "Despotic diplomacy . . . loss of racial independence" were among the phrases Hatoyama used to describe "the long occupation." The pleased Russians let it be known that Hatoyama's drift to the left is entirely conducive to "restoring normal relations...
Government radio programs began to belabor party and government officials for not working hard enough...
...some unfriendly critics continue to belabor us with the name of one single teacher who was a Communist, seeking thereby to create the impression or perhaps mistakenly believing that we are a seat for widespread disloyalty," the President explained...