Word: repell
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...there if America tries to play a hand at the old game of power politics. We must encourage . . . and work exclusively with the forces that are neither Nazi-tainted nor Fascist-stained. . . . America must be willing to agree to bear its share in any military effort to prevent or repel aggression...
...Russians, being realists of a particularly chilly kind, believe that the best insurance of national safety is: 1) effective understandings, coldly reached, with all the powers far or near which might imperil that safety; and 2) an army and an air force strong enough to repel any military threat...
...Army's heavy tanks remained on the east bank, and through the terrible day which followed their guns helped to repel the German counterattacks. And all through that day, ignoring German shelling and air attacks, other men swarmed across the Dnieper on logs, empty gasoline drums, capes stuffed with hay. Behind them, on huge rafts, came tanks...
Next day medium bombers hit Boulogne. Other formations, including Fortresses, bombed and strafed every airfield from which German planes could have taken off to repel invaders. Swarms of fighters, on escort and on independent sweeps, took and held absolute command of the sky above the coastland. Behind the coastal area, near Paris, Fortresses and escorting Thunderbolt fighters staged a great raid with a double purpose: to bomb an aircraft-engine works and to engage the only sizable force of German fighters which appeared over France that...
...rustic plant-by-a-waterfall in Windsor, Vt., not far from Bachelor Gallowhur's 2,000-acre farm, is producing Skat at the rate of 5,000,000 bottles a month. Among its big customers is the U.S. Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies...