Word: wrest
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...fitting that Putnam should succeed Bennett as treasurer, in light of his original role in the move to wrest power from Bennett, it is ironic that Cabot should succeed Bennett as the new portfolio manager: Cabot's uncle was Paul C. Cabot '21, former Harvard treasurer and co-founder of State Street Management and Research and Bennett's mentor. It was Cabot senior who trained Bennett and hand-picked him as his successor at State Street and Harvard. But the younger Cabot has already proven himself to also be wary of the financial management style his uncle and Bennett brought...
Peter Tetlow had the unenviable task of trying to wrest some Eastern distance freestyle titles from the clutches of Haydon, but nevertheless became the first Harvard swimmer ever to break the 16-minute barrier in the mile, and 4:40 in the 500. Freshman Ted Fullerton cleaned up in the breastrokes, and Tim Neville used his super psych to blitz the field in the 50 free. Some great swims, some even greater times, and an even more amazing season. The fact that the Eastern title won't be Harvard's for at least another year is really the least...
When Princeton arrived in Cambridge last weekend, it was the King of Eastern Swimming. The Tigers managed to slip past upstart Harvard and pretty much mauled everyone else last year to wrest away the championship of the Eastern Swim League from its traditional owners and take it back to New Jersey. But the wave of swimming fortune crested and broke too soon for the Tigers this year as their loss to the Crimson last weekend just about paved the way for Harvard to take the Easterns...
...Howard Hughes was the longest and most stupefyingly wasteful legal siege ever mounted. The suit was initiated in 1961 by the airline's banker-installed management to wrest control of TWA from Hughes-who owned 78% of its stock-and to compensate the company for huge losses suffered during his erratic rule. The case, played for stakes of half a billion dollars, never even came to trial. Yet it cost the litigants at least $20 million, and filled 694 feet of shelf space with legal documentation. The airline's attorneys prevailed, largely because of Hughes' pathological resistance...
...Harvard front, four law professors, with support from over half of the Law School faculty, wrote to President Bok at midweek to say that tourists might wrest west Cambridge from the University if plans to incorporate a museum with the library went through...