Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took 50 years for the Irish to wrest control from the Yankees in this city. Now you're trying to hand it right back," Councilor Alfred E. Velucci told Richard Fraiman, head of a landlord organization...
Carter is vulnerable from within and without, from left and right. These threats may tend to cancel each other, leaving him in sole possession of American politics' high ground--the middle of the road. In trying to wrest that position from him, Brown may try to talk out of both sides of his mouth to different groups, and attempt to sell this anti-Democratic package to the rank and file. How flimsy such a challenge would be is made obvious when the intimidating possibility of a Kennedy campaign is contemplated, likely only if no other suitably liberal candidate emerges...
...Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons can bend. If he stays firm and wins a big settlement, that may help him fight off small but growing and vocal dissident movements within his union. The insurgent groups-Washington-based PROD Inc. and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union in Detroit-aim to wrest control of the scandal-scarred union's leadership. The rebels want more democracy and a cleanup...
...Princeton Tigers managed to wrest the crown from 1978 champion Penn on the strength of their depth and consistency. Each one of their nine fencers captured at least eight of his 12 bouts...
...from $11,964 to $16,764, for patrolmen, contract coverage for ranking officers, and binding arbitration in disputes over noneconomic issues. The city balked. The new demands would have cost an additional $ 19 million, which it claimed it did not have. Morial accused the Teamsters of trying to wrest control of the police department from the city. The police walked out again, despite a back-to-work court order...