Word: wrest
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...Kansas, G.O.P. Congressman Bob Ellsworth is trying to strengthen his long-shot bid to wrest the senatorial nomination from Incumbent James Pearson by demanding redoubled efforts for negotiations and a place for the Viet Cong at the bargaining table...
Motherhood, God, Americanism, and George Chuvalo, the Brian London of the Western Hemisphere, will try to wrest the heavyweight boxing title from world champion Muhammed Ali in Toronto tonight. Las Vegas bookmakers rate Ali the eight-to-one favorite...
Jackson represented the first major presidential challenge to the Senate. He tried to wrest patronage away from the Senate, where it had been a somewhat clubby affair, and largely succeeded in putting it under party control. More important, he sought to establish the concept of the President as the representative of the whole nation. The Jacksonian concept did not immediately prevail. During the Civil War, the Senate was subservient to Lincoln. But with war's end and Lincoln's death, it rapidly reasserted itself and achieved its pinnacle of power if not prestige. Its leaders were party bosses...
...Harold Stassen, 58, the G.O.P.'s perennial candidate for almost anything, hopped back on the treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
Achieving the Symbol. The intense activity represents the latest stage in Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving...