Word: repell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing in a best-of-three format Harvard took the first two sets to knock off B.U. Wellesley took two of three sets to repel the spikers in the following match...
Whitley, a junior returning for her third year in net, had a successful if not very busy weekend. While a relentless Crimson offense forced Lion and Cardinal goalies to make a total of 32 saves, Whitley had to repel only 12 shots over two games--and all three of Columbia's came on free kicks...
...what government could do for the individual, Reagan is testing the lower limits. Reagan's opinions and policies would be enough in another time to have protesters marching in the streets, or worse. And yet something about Reagan soothes and unites--even though the effects of his programs may repel. He softens the meaner edges of conservatism with populist effusions, reaching outside the rigid framework of ideologies to the pool of shared American experience, to our dreamy nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since...
Again, the policy pays little attention to the past: for example, to the fact that Cuban troops were invited by the Angolan government to help repel an invasion by South African forces from bases in the illegally occupied territory of Namibia...
With Barakett providing a new sting to the Crimson's offense, it seems unlikely that any team will repel the Cantabs' charge...