Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election chances in November. The trouble is the result of the bitter 1970 primary fight between Ohio Senator Robert Taft Jr. and Former Governor James Rhodes, and a series of G.O.P. financial scandals, all of which has left the party in a shambles. Now Taft is maneuvering to wrest power from the Rhodes-influenced Republican state central committee. He plans to run for the 46-member committee in hopes that growing dissatisfaction with Rhodes' leadership and Taft's own improved power position will enable him to break Rhodes' grip on the party. Since Ohio...
Tonight's game is Harvard's last chance to wrest the Ivy League championship from Cornell after seven years of Cornell domination, and it is the Crimson's last chance to prove itself against good competition before the ECAC play-offs...
Isaacs referred to a paragraph in Thursday morning's issue of the Globe which attributed to Kilbridge a statement that "with the knowledge and consent of former President Nathan M. Pusey. (Kilbridge had) tried to 'wrest control' of the (Planning) Department from the three professors, who among them had held the chairmanship for 17 years, and to restore the authority of the Planning faculty as a whole...
...January, 1969, WHDH's license to Channel Five ran out, and was awarded to BBI, a private company with a number of Harvard professors as shareholders. Previously, four other challengers had battled unsuccessfully for 13 years to wrest the license from WHDH...
...extended in a Churchillian V-for-Victory sign. Victories have been none too plentiful around College Park in past years, and Driesell, the "messiah of Maryland basketball," is being depended upon to bring the Terrapins to a position of national power in college basketball. Ultimately, he is expected to wrest the national title away from UCLA...