Word: wrest
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Beginning in the fall of 1994, the Class of 1997 went to and won a lot of games, and Cabot eked out Leverett to wrest the Straus Cup from Mather. Weitzel started to get excited. The House Masters got excited, even building a trophy case...
SEATTLE: After his landslide election to the National Rifle Association board, Charlton Heston is launching a crusade to unseat Neal Knox, the NRA's controversial first vice president, in elections Tuesday. Heston hopes to counter Knox, a longtime NRA member who is working to wrest control of the group from 56-year-old president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre...
...texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
...Buchanan is no angel, yet he remains a force with which every decent conservative must wrestle. The prize we must wrest from him is the same as the one Jacob received from his heavenly opponent. From our struggle with Buchanan, we must win a name; we must find an identity. If we are not for him, what are we for? If his message is corrupt and filthy, what have we to say? If we rebuke his conservatism, what is the nature...
DETROIT: Disgruntled Chrysler shareholder and takeover nemesis Kirk Kerkorian has agreed to not increase his stake in the automaker for five years. The move brings to an abrupt halt a rough takeover fight that had played out over much of the past year, as Kerkorian unsuccessfully tried to wrest control of the company. In return for peace, Kerkorian lieutenant James Aljian will get a seat on Chrysler's board. Chrysler also agreed to buy back an additional $3 billion worth of company stock. The move could increase the value of Chrysler stock, and the value of Kerkorian's 54 million...