Word: repelled
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...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...
...naval censorship bureau where we occasionally transact business we were stopped short at the threshold by a typewritten notice that, one step ahead, we would be shot without warning. Quite confidentially, we spied through a glass window and found neither men nor materials strategically disposed to repel an invader. Another Pearl Harbor...
...military, are rotten with dead wood and cluttered with red tape, that production could be 40% greater. Although he was doubtless right that Britain had been unable to reinforce Malaya, he did not explain away the fact that the British high command had mistakenly believed that Malaya could successfully repel any attack. His skillful apologies for the military past were little assurance for the future...