Word: repelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...return to the clink. Pepe had not asked for leave, had not been notified of his release by proper authorities, had refused use of a Government car. Now he was comfortably situated in Galo's roomy residence. To the astonished Minister Galo added: "We are ready to repel any attempt on the part of the authorities to break into my house. I only request that I be notified ahead of time so that I can evacuate my wife and young children...
...Camouflage paints for storage tanks and factories, which repel infra-red heat from the sun almost as well as metallic and light-colored paints, are now available. Made in dull, earthen colors, the new paints do not show in infra-red photographs made by observation planes...
Silone's World of God will impartially repel Leftists, Centrists and Rightists. Its chief representative in this book, Pietro Spina, is no party man. He is a kind of religious anarchist. He thinks too well of the poor as they are, and too ill of the rest of the world, to be much interested in reducing poverty. He is Novelist Silone's embodiment of the best that a man of heart and mind can be in this century...