Word: wrest
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Brown was the team's chief nemesis. After the Crimson beat the Bears last season for the first time in 15 years, Brown retaliated with three wins this season to wrest away the league title. Each game was close--the scores were 15-7, 15-9 and 11-9, respectively--but each was nonetheless a loss...
...stations to replace them. The options aren't very appealing. In each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current ABC or NBC affiliate. But that would probably trigger a bidding war that could wind up costing the network plenty...
Yeltsin gambles that he can wrest power from his rivals...
Duong Thu Huong presents an indelible portrait of three northern Vietnamese women and the sacrifices men and communist society wrest from them. The main characters of Paradise represent real women in Vietnam--not the extremes portrayed by the passive Phuong of Graham Greene's The Quiet American nor the whores of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal lacket." Despite their ordinary occupations and status as second-class citizens, though, the women of Paradise are nothing short of extraordinary...
...hard-line Congress puts Russia squarely on the road to reform. Nothing will help rescue the Russian economy until the state brings hyperinflation under control; it cannot do that unless the central bank stops its wildly profligate printing of rubles; that seems unlikely to happen unless Yeltsin can wrest control of the bank from his parliamentary opponents. First aid cannot restore a body, or an economy, to health, but a country bleeding to death needs any help...