Word: repellant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jean-Claude Brialy) agonizes deliciously over his unrequited love for blue-eyed Inge, the cool blonde of his dancing-school class. Dark-eyed Lisaveta (Nadja Tiller), an art student whom he visits on a poetry-writing trip to Italy, is far more responsive. But Lisaveta's bohemian ways repel him; when she invites him to a costume ball, he politely refuses and dozes on her sofa while he waits for her to come home...
...before it approves anything like the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, which Johnson used as a mandate for the subsequent Viet Nam buildup. The resolution, sponsored at the time by Fulbright himself, expressed congressional "approval and support" of the President's determination "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression...
...course, has not declared war in Viet Nam. Nonetheless, in 1964 Congress did pass, with only two dissenting votes, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, affirming its readiness "to approve and support the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression...
...measure of Moscow's desperation was the procedure that the Soviets used for summoning the General Assembly into emergency session. The procedure was first devised by the U.S. in 1950 in order to obtain U.N. authority to repel Communist aggression in Korea. At that time, the Russians damned as illegal what they themselves employed last week...
...image of Nasser still burned bright in the eyes of the Egyptian masses. If ever a fellah needed a friend, it was now, and the masses believed that only "Jamal"-Nasser-could lead them to repel the enemy. Cairo police reported that in the few hours from the time that Nasser "resigned" and then changed his mind, a record number of suicides took place. When he heard of the resignation, a soldier guarding a Cairo bridge howled like a wounded animal, fired his machine gun into the Nile until it was empty...