Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untrammeled flow of trade. It would be a historic error if a nation as powerful as the U.S. allowed a crisis elsewhere, no matter how troublesome, to distract it from its determination to retain the mastery of the sea that Admiral Gorshkov is so anxious to wrest from...
...moving to control our African-American communities, as you are moving to wrest control of your countries, of the entire Latin continent, from the hands of foreign imperialist powers...
...moving to control our African-American communnities, as you are moving to wrest control of your countries, of the entire Latin continent, from the hands of foreign imperialist powers."--Stokely Carmichael in Havana...
...region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key transshipment point for Viet Nam, thousands of troops of the 47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn in two and in a state of virtual civil war: anti-Maoists hold Chungking, and Maoists the city of Chengtu, 150 miles to the north...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...