Word: wrest
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest Star Abbe Lane wriggles to the exotic rhythms of the Algiers casbah, while Napoleon and Illya wrest a secret code from Thrush agents. Repeat...
America's Cup yacht racing is one of the few sports in which the losers are often better remembered than the winners. The most famous figure in the 116-year history of the cup is Britain's Sir Thomas Lipton, who tried five times to wrest it away from the U.S. Australia's Sir Frank Packer, 60, is obviously cast from the Lipton mold...
...performance which gave Harvard a chance to cop the meet came in the next to last race--the 200-yard breaststroke. E.G. Nadeau flew off the last turn and came churning down the lane to wrest second place from a tiring Bruin...
Held in the grip of a fanatical socialist party that seeks to wrest from Egypt's Nasser the leadership of the Arab left, Syria has become the epicenter on the seismographic chart of Middle Eastern turmoil. From the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aden, its mortars and machine guns, tanks and terrorists ply their disruptive trade not only against Israel but against the nations of the Arab center and right...
...generally unfriendly climate, Texas' liberal rump flourishes mostly along the state's industrial Gulf Coast, among its Mexican-American minority concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in south Texas, and on some college campuses. As a group, it has rarely been able to wrest control of the state government from the oil, land and financial barons who have traditionally kept conservative Democrats in power. The liberals' chief foe nowadays is Governor John Connally, an old L.B.J. ally, who nonetheless has repeatedly blocked such Great Society-oriented proposals as state minimum-wage and industrial-safety laws...