Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rules of the game and the means for enforcing those rules were in the control of a group of men who had dominated Texas politics for decades--the conservative Democrats. Although their specific interests had changed since the post-Civil War days when they had finally managed to wrest control away from the Republican Recon-structionists, these men only became more sophisticated in their dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the people whom they had supposedly been elected to serve...
...most dispiriting consequences of friction between students and university administrators during recent years has been the stepped up efforts of administrators to control the campus press. In each of the last three years, officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and vest final decision making power in the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
...most dispiriting consequence of friction between students and university administrators during been the stepped up efforts of administrators control the campus press. In each of the last three years officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and to vest final decision makeup power in school administrators. The latest episode perhaps the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
Except there are moments when the spirit palls and the resolute good humor stretches thin. Drunk once more, you stumble home alone to wrest yourself to sleep in an unmade, comfortless bed. And the party's almost over and whadaya got to show? The one-liners have long since faded. And after one or two bravura letters, the friendships fade as well. So what then's left to do short of shuffling through Senior Yearbook for the next 2000 years? Let's face it. College is pretty much a shuck. A holding action with a seductive glow that hasn...
...Princeton and Boston College remaining. Clarkson, meanwhile, plays at St. Lawrence and RPI, and hosts New Hampshire during the final eight days. It is a possibility, although slim, that if New Hampshire loses its games with weak Colgate and Army, that either the Golden Knights or the Quakers could wrest the fourth spot away...