Word: wrack
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...fourth of José's five Rosales novels, which together span a hundred years of Philippine history from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the declaration of martial law by a besieged Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. José's saga, an outraged testament to the inequalities that wrack Manila and the country at large, is rivaled in his nation's literature only by José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), both acknowledged influences on José's writing. In Dusk, the first in the saga and set at the wane of the 19th century...
...They started to wrack up a few power plays towards the end of the first [period],” said Crimson goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, “and also in the second. The game has a flow to it—we have a little bit of momentum, they have some momentum—and maybe in their barn, they picked up some momentum going into that second and third period...