Word: repellent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...initial manufacturing investment is huge and the product standardized, individual companies set their own prices not directly in terms of their own supply and demand, but in terms of the industry's as a whole. Price is a sort of community-owned snickersnee, drawn when necessary to repel invaders, but not for civil strife. So long as the price is such as to maximize the industry's profits, each company fights for its individual share (and often, as in the tobacco industry, very fiercely) with less dangerous weapons, such as advertising...
...That the Peruvians "headed for Portovelo where the Ecuadorian Government runs a gold mine" is simply a fantastic tale. Peru has done nothing except repel an aggression and take possession of the places where it started...
...Miss Kelly's lack of detachment and weakness for sermonizing turn what might have been a study of modern marriage into a sort of book of marital etiquette. Like any etiquette book, it will repel many readers who travel in a different set from the author's, or who speak a different dialect...