Word: repelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eban: The momentum of war may carry our forces beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines in [order to] repel the Arab threat. The Arab states can still set a cease-fire on the basis of the previous ceasefire, then get a peace negotiation on the basis of Security Council Resolution 242. But they will find our attitude on the boundary and security arrangements deeply and traumatically affected by the damage and loss they inflicted on us on the Day of Atonement...
...limited wars of naked and raw agression such as in Korea and Indochina would become impossible. It is absolutely absurd, it seems to me, to argue that a massive foreign military force could invade the United States in the thermo-nuclear age, and therefore we must be prepared to repel it with a massive military force. This is on a par with the biggest propaganda lies ever proposed by Goebbels and Hitler...
...frivolous behavior of many white students must also repel blacks, most of whom have little desire to major in Mongolian or frolic in a club while their central cities crumble. Competitive whites in school for no purpose beyond personal gain must appear bizarre to most blacks, who were socialized in a more communal, and in many ways more humane environment...
...cool in the police car, and the cops, although jittery, relax when they see that their passenger is unarmed. They have their own stories to tell, of new ambush attacks, and of strong desires for shotguns to repel something they call the Black Liberation Army. But after they listen to their passenger's story, there is a quiet in the car, and there is no further attempt to educate the new Rip Van Winkle. There is no attempt to go to the station. Rip is, suddenly, a free man all over again, and stuttering, he tries to find praise...
...electrons). But for reasons that are still not fully understood, the ions in storm clouds begin to separate according to their charge, with the negative ions settling to the bottom of the cloud and the positive ions moving to the top. The negatively charged cloud bottoms, in turn, repel negative ions in the earth below, leaving the ground with a positive charge. When the electrical potential, or voltage, between cloud and earth becomes great enough, a stream of ionized particles will suddenly burst down from the cloud to equalize that potential, becoming visible as a flash of lightning...