Word: wrest
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...year was 1924, and an upstart Massachusetts Republican named Joseph W. Martin Jr., 39, launched a no-holds-barred campaign to wrest a congressional seat away from a sickly 83-year-old incumbent. "This is not a time for sentiment," snapped young Joe Martin in announcing his candidacy. "The office of Congressman is a position for one in vigorous health if the people are to be adequately served...
Kesselring himself could hardly have prevailed against a populace so shifty that when a man quarrels with his neighbor he adds injury to insult by letting his donkey eat the neighbor's grass. In the belly-busting climax of this humoric epic, the Germans ignominiously wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, and the villagers preserve their vino for the postwar American market. Crichton tells his story with grace, pace, warmth and a wonderful free-reeling wit that skips among the vineyards like an inebriated billygoat. The book should make a dandy movie...
...Western Europe and the Mediterranean have lately been afflicted with a phenomenon familiar to the U.S.: the beatnik. Unwashed, unshaven, unregenerate, clad in turtleneck sweatshirt, Levi's and sandals, the European variety is often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is truly outraged, for the happy...
Joining the chorus of indignation, Kennedy huddled with Liberal Party leaders and reform Democrats, who proceeded to make their own deal to wrest the Democratic nomination from Klein in the primary and put up a Democratic-Liberal candidate in the general election. The Liberals dumped their earlier nominee, the reformers deserted Klein, and the new coalition plumped for Justice Samuel Silverman, 58, a Klein colleague on the Supreme Court. Kennedy personally talked him into running...
...decision to act against Egypt came from Ben-Gurion, who had been informed of the Anglo-French plans to wrest the Suez Canal from Nasser. Responsibility for plans and operations was handed to Major General Dayan, who at 38 had been named Israel's Army Chief of Staff in 1953. Nasser had the bigger, better equipped force. To achieve surprise, Dayan delayed general mobilization until the last possible moment before his attack. Then, on Oct. 29, he dropped 395 paratroopers from 16 lumbering Dakotas near the Mitla Pass, only 45 miles from Suez. The first 100 hours...