Word: repellent
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...long since returned to their homes except Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. There, 10 years after the fall of Troy, his faithful wife Penelope fends off a riotous band of suitors for her hand in marriage; his son Telemachus, an infant when his father went off to war, cannot repel the suitors or claim the throne without sure knowledge that Odysseus will never return. Where in the world...
Devotees of Candace Bushnell,--a journalist who looks like Suzanne Somers with a polo-club membership--approach her writing the way they might a car wreck or a Peter Greenaway movie: they know it might repel, but they are forced to have a look. For two years Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" has appeared regularly in the New York Observer--a salmon-colored weekly paper doted on by Manhattan's media elite--offering bleakly funny reportage on dating rituals among the city's most physically and financially privileged. Now 25 of her pieces have been compiled...
...host to an international conference at which 250 scientists from the U.S., Europe and South America got a look at some of the products wending their way through the laboratory. Among the most promising: a recombinant vaccine that protects cattle against disease-bearing ticks, crops genetically engineered to repel insects, and industrial enzymes that cut energy consumption...
According to Peterson, people have four types of psychological systems which either attract them toward pleasurable sensations or repel them from harmful ones...
Womack remembers when Communists had it hard on campus. During the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950s, not even Harvard's clout could repel the anti-Communist fervor...