Word: wrest
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...than the office now affords, and freeing the Secretary and the President even more from the control of Congress. But this is just what McCarthy has been campaigning against. The President and the Secretary of State now have too much power in the setting of foreign policy. Bundy would wrest away what little authority Congress now has in this area by giving more fiscal power to the executive branch, including the power of tax--within limits of course, but limits that would probably be great enough to support a major escalation of any given...
...play some part in making revolutions, but they have drawn from the history of the Vietnam war exactly the opposite conclusion to the one the U.S. intends for them. The facts seem clear. Even with half a million men and enormous firepower the U.S. has not been able to wrest control of the countryside from the Viet Cong. To the revolutionaries this means simply that the U.S. can be beaten. No matter what happens in the future they will not lose this conviction...
...MONTH ago, the national press had all but written off Eugene McCarthy's bid to wrest the Democratic Presidential nomination from Lyndon Johnson. They said his campaign was not catching on, that he hadn't drawn the large-scale support from anti-war students that he had hoped...
AFTER a decade of working with the Organization in the legislature, Spong decided to challenge it in a state-wide contest. Projecting the image of an attractive young problem-solver, he entered the Democratic primary in July, 1966, in an effort to wrest the nomination away from veteran Sen. A. Willis Robertson. Although he was helped by abolition of the poll tax and the subsequent growth in the Negro electorate, Spong's most active support came from a whole generation of young voters who could not identify with the old men in the Organization. Robertson conducted the best-financed...
...short the people of the cities can attempt to wrest the money now being spent in Vietnam for themselves only by wielding their political muscle...