Word: belabored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarreled with Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy. vice president of the university, over the cancer drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Though Stoddard had scientific backing for his denunciation of the drug, many trustees felt that it was not up to him to belabor popular Dr. Ivy in public...
...would risk their national lives by hooting at, say, China when the United States and the UN has discarded them, is a sickening commentary on their approach to foreign policy. Scrapping collective security would only imperil the United States far more than at present. There is no need to belabor this point further...
...Turnip Day" 1948, but the situation is quite different in 1952. There is no Republican 80th Congress to blame for all the things that have gone wrong; the Democrats have had a clear majority for four years. Because of the shotgun reconciliation at Chicago, the Truman Democrats cannot gracefully belabor their much-whipped boy, the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition. The Southern Democrats are back in the family, and one of them is even on the ticket...
Egyptian small fry zestfully played a new game. The kid who was "it" would walk down the street with a stick over his shoulder, imitating a British soldier. The others would sneak up behind, belabor him violently and grab his "rifle," shouting, "Die, Inglesi...
...human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...