Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What's the trouble between Lithuania and Poland?" Perennial Quarrel. Poland and Lithuania are both states which carved themselves out from the onetime Russian Empire, when it fell; and their quarrels arise from the fact that each has persisted in a militant desire to continue carving and to wrest from the other certain provinces...
...split occurred soon after General Chiang Kai-Shek captured Shanghai. An attempt was made to wrest power from the victorious general who evaded the move by setting up an independent regime at Nan king and denouncing the government at Hankow as bolshevist...
...Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now on pleasure bent in the U. S. (TiME, April 18) visited the scene of his honeymoon at Concord, Mass., last week; but received while there disturbing news that the radical "Clydeside" wing of British labor had begun a campaign in his absence to wrest from him leadership of the Labor party...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
Straightway the Premier's news-organ, II Giornale d'Italia, began a contest to choose names for the cubs. Scores of Fascists suggested "Bastone,"* "Eia"† and "Alala."† Some hundreds of imperialist Fascists suggested the names of three areas which Italy would like to wrest from France: "Nice," "Savoie" and "Tunis...