Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who attended were there to honor a friend rather than board a bandwagon. Teddy Kennedy, who does not like backing losers, may well stay on the sidelines until the June convention or even the September primary. Many politicians doubt in any case that O'Donnell can wrest the nomination from Edward McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, who has held statewide office (Attorney General), has been campaigning longer than O'Donnell and would also like Republican Governor John Volpe...
...strong central controls over their economies and opting for the freer American system. Britain's ruling Labor Party has become practically bourgeois, and this year scrapped almost all notions of nationalizing industry; West Germany's Socialists have long since done the same in an effort?so far unsuccessful?to wrest power from the free-enterprising Christian Democrats; and traditionally Socialist Norway in 1965 voted a conservative government into power for the first time in 30 years...
...Elath on the failure of Premier Levi Eshkol to develop the Negev, then gave a two-hour evening lecture on other Eshkol shortcomings. In prep aration for Israel's general elections on Nov. 2, Ben-Gurion has founded a new party called Rafi and is seeking to wrest the balance of power in the Knesset (Parliament) from his hand-picked replacement for Premier...
...Rhode Island Sound-two of the handsomest, most dangerous twelve-meter yachts to visit U.S. waters. Some time between now and the start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...
...money, says Dr. DuBridge, goes mostly into such impressive engineering projects as moon rockets. But all that work depends on discoveries made in the past, some of them generations ago. The pace of progress, warns Dr. DuBridge, will slow perceptibly unless theoretical scientists, with no hardware in mind, wrest fresh knowledge from nature...