Word: repelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions by the planning date of 1957. After nearly a year of study, NAG came to a simple conclusion: Europe could not be defended with its present forces without the use of atomic weapons. With atomic weapons it could. But NATO powers would have to authorize their use to repel Communist assault whether or not the Communists used them first...
...Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird itself for a regime of austerity, self-denial and sacrifice...
...Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your armies to withstand and repel aggression from without? If the British were to go today, the Communists would be in tomorrow ... It would be 99 times worse than the Japanese occupation...
Montgomery Ward Chairman John Barr last week reported the cost of the proxy fight to repel Raider Louis Wolfson. The bill: $692,250. The cost of the fight, plus a change in the method of computing the corporation's tax caused by a tax law change, cut the company's net for the first six months to $11,771,690, a 5% drop under 1954, despite a $22 million rise in sales. But Barr also had some good news. The company plans to open 100 new catalogue-order offices by the end of next year, the first sizable...
...scruples on these scores should never be allowed to prevent the administration of baptism altogether. Our Blessed Lord was insistent that little children be allowed to come to Him. For a priest to repel an infant from the font means that he shoulders a responsibility which few indeed . . . can be willing to bear...