Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feed the Engine. Even a hint that the international monetary rescue agency might not be able to do its job weakens confidence in the currency structure of the entire free world. Keenly aware of this, I.M.F. Managing Director Per Jacobsson of Sweden went to Vienna determined to wrest from the most prosperous member nations a pledge to put up the money for a special $6 billion reserve that the Fund could call on in a crisis. Since all I.M.F. nations have a stake in the health of the dollar-a large percentage of their own reserves are in dollars-they...
...they were suspected of planning to escape to the West or of encouraging others to do so. Hordes of uniformed "Free German Youth" youngsters were sent out to inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest Berlin or West Germany. "Anyone listening to Western radio or television broadcasts is a traitor," cried an editorial in Leipzig's Sächsische Zeitung...
...work on China's farms. Irrigation ditches and wells were being dug, and cadres were hard at work trying to plant winter vegetables and fast-ripening varieties of wheat. Said Radio Peking: "Sowing had to be carried out a second, or even a fifth or sixth time to wrest a harvest when the shoots were killed by scorching sun or floods." Reported one refugee from Kwangtung province: "Everybody is half dead in my village. They work from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and all they get is seven ounces of rice and a few sticks of vegetables...
Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will...
Senate Majority Leader Johnson had scheduled the post-convention session as part of his pre-convention strategy for trying to wrest the presidential nomination away from Kennedy. Once Kennedy got the nomination and tabbed Johnson as his running mate, he had hopes of wringing political gains out of the session by pushing through vote-catching welfare measures. But Kennedy's political gains from the session came to zero: no housing bill, no aid-to-education bill, modest minimum-wage and medical-care bills quite unlike those he had advocated, no sign whatever of the farm bill he promised...