Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House: "I know that there are some who would urge a more vigorous policy, who say that by some unexplained, imaginative stroke of daring we ought, as they say, to wrest to ourselves the initiative. With the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of this Government we cannot be hustled into adventures which appear to us to present little chance of success and much chance of danger and perhaps disaster...