Word: repellant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Nazi air squadrons made pinprick night attacks. They harassed beachheads occasionally, kept convoy gunners alert to repel assaults for which Berlin claimed good results...
...this work on weapons proceeds under the supervision of President Conant. Besides this work, the OSRD is busy with advanced problems of military medicine, and is attempting to solve such problems as mass production of penicillin, development and testing of substances which will repel sharks, barracuda, and jelly fish, treatment of gas casualties, and development of methods to make drinkable water out of sea water...
...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...