Word: belabors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large number of respectable and even eminent people who are not at all burdened with responsibility, who have a lot of leisure on their hands and who think most sincerely that the best work they can do at this present time of hard effort and anxiety is to belabor the Government. . . . This National Government which has led the nation and empire and, as I hold, a large part of the world out of mortal danger, through the dark valleys into which they had wandered, largely through their own folly, back onto the broad uplands where the stars of peace...
Just after filing his monopoly report last week, up for reappointment came Commissioner Brown. He faced unexpected opposition. New Hampshire's blatant Senator Tobey ignored his party line to belabor a fellow Republican. Equipped with a portfolio crammed with documents, Tobey bellowed a demand for facts concerning a "wild party" given in New York by WMCA's President Donald Flamm, and attended by Brown. When Brown refused to discuss the affair, Tobey leered and boomed: "And is it true that one of the men at the party ran his hand up a woman's leg?" Later...
Spice. Pennypincher Taft, urging general economy, called the farm bill "suicidal." The mere word "economy" enrages Texas' Tom Connally in any year; this election year (he is up), it drives him crazy. He took the Senate floor to belabor Mr. Taft, went for him with ridicule and bad grammar. Connally got Mr. Taft in a tight corner when he made him admit that he was for economy but also for farm subsidies. Then South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Appropriation committeeman, remarked that Mr. Taft, although a committee-member, had at no time this year tried to reduce...