Word: wrest
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Mleczko, who has led Harvard in scoring all season, constantly kept the game close and had a role in all of the Crimson's four goals. However, she and the rest of the Harvard players were never able to wrest the lead from Dartmouth...
...indirectly responsible for her pregnancy: she had lost her apartment, and in Brooklyn's Auburn Place homeless shelter she began a romance with Gustavo Izquierdo, who worked at the shelter as a cook. As her pregnancy progressed, Awilda was so lost in the pipe that relatives managed to wrest custody of her first two children, Rubencito and Kasey, from her. The social workers at Woodhull Hospital took one look at Elisa's tiny, crack-addicted body and immediately assigned custody to the father. Following standard procedure, they also alerted...
Kentucky Republicans are stressing the need for change as they attempt to wrest the governorship from 24 years of Democratic control. Larry Forgy, an attorney, is running under the Republican banner and challenging current Lt. Gov. Paul Patton...
Malone a treacherous negotiator? Don't be silly, he says. Equally ridiculous, he adds, is the idea that he plans to make trouble for Levin down the road--even, as some lurid scenarists would have it, helping Ted Turner move against Levin to wrest control of the company. "I know Ted very well," Malone says. "His life-style is such that he doesn't want to be in there running anything. Jerry is king. We're giving him the power to be a really strong CEO." Because Malone controls a huge cable system, FCC rules bar him from controlling more...
...teams that are trying to wrest the title away, Dartmouth and Penn have the best shots along with Harvard. Dartmouth's only graduate was first-team All-Ivy goaltender Lauren Demski, and the Big Green return back Cynthia Roberts and potent scoring threat Allison Pell. However, the team must still cope with the tragic July suicide of captain-elect Sarah Devens...