Word: repelled
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...been Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51) and might be again, decided to go himself. Britons never forget that Attlee was the man who, in 1947, ordered Britain to rearm against the threat of Communism, who with these words sent British troops into Korea in 1950 to repel Communist aggressors: "They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects." "They won't fool old Clem," said pub pundits with satisfaction...
...crisis with the required tact. At Trafalgar Square traffic lights, when one Londoner leaped aboard, the conductor grinned and addressed the passengers, "Shall I chuck him off or give him a medal?" As lights halted another bus at Lower Regent Street, the conductor bellowed cheerfully, "Stand by to repel boarders...
...arms, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey voluntarily allied themselves against Soviet imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through the Communist countries of Bulgaria and Albania.* It will also set up a consultative assembly, representing the three Parliaments, to discuss mutual problems (Yugoslavia alone of the three does not belong to NATO...
...much more favorable battlefield, settled, down to a stalemate and then a truce in Korea. And around that Korean failure lay a still larger setting of weakness: the tendency of the non-Communist world to think of the cold war purely in terms of reaction to enemy action, to "repel aggression...
...Plus-Two: Just after midnight, the Communists surge again towards Bald Head, marked by a single lightning-blasted tree-stump etched against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...