Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...society." The line got a big hand. But later people were curiously unmoved; they'd been cheering the sentiment, not the sentimentalist. The response of these Democratic regulars--those who man phone banks and get out the vote--shows how hard it will be for Bradley to wrest the nomination from Gore. "Bradley didn't say anything to change my mind," said Bertrice Hall, a union administrator and enthusiastic Gore supporter (yes, they do exist). Hall and others had real problems with Bradley's pitch, including his now familiar refusal to share his plans for achieving these big ideas...
...group approached the student and tried to wrest a book from him, according to Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
...when he had to spend 20 days in jail for hitting his wife (he's sorry and admits he learned that in America, you're not allowed to beat your spouse). And no, the media don't want to interview him about the time he tried to wrest control of a Vietnamese meditation group called Vo Vi (his critics said he proclaimed himself God; Tran says he left to pursue a simpler life). Rather, they want to know why he is the target of one of the most heated displays of Asian-American anger ever seen...
...Styrofoam cooler, and then, with the help of his brother, dumped it at sea. (The cooler was later found by fishermen.) Neither did anyone expect him to point the finger at another ex-mistress, Deborah MacIntyre, who, he says, "accidentally" shot Fahey as Capano tried to wrest a gun from her--an action he claims he later covered up by getting rid of the body, which has never been found. MacIntyre denies the entire story. "It's not a whodunit--it's a whodunwhat," says Cris Barrish, a local reporter...
There's slim hope that this vast reservoir of alienated, alternatively minded youth will try to wrest political power from those old-fashioned enough to notice Election Day. They might unite in resistance if cultural warriors like William Bennett and Joseph Lieberman, who regularly denounce obscenity and bad attitudes in pop culture, were to foster some repressive legislation. (Imagine the headlines: HIP-HOP AND HEAVY METAL BANNED! SOUTH PARK CREATORS IMPRISONED!) But the revolutionists who would bring these skeptical tribes together would have to be able to combine political activism with an irony as thick as David Letterman's. They...