Word: repellent
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...dislodge Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, but the alliance probably never would have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices and didn't want Saddam brandishing weapons of mass destruction. Today the nightmare scenarios of nuclear-weapons proliferation and regional instability in Asia may soon be seen to justify a second Korean...
...hoped that his small, independent province would become a sovereign state. The South African government finally lost its patience and threatened to send troops into the area to keep the peace in preparation for free elections. Mangope acceded to the plan after he saw that he could not successfully repel the soldiers, but his submission came too late...
Very few of us can talk about the Men's movement without smiling. The sweatlodges and firecircles and teary, bourbon-induced confessionals repel the very sympathy that their devotees are aiming for. The "movement" is most successful when it doesn't bill itself as such, but instead tries only to bring into focus the new and sometimes byzantine nuances of male-female relations. Any work that hopes to articulate the plight of the nineties man must, if only for the sake of critical viability, avoid at all cost a wounded or plaintive tone. Clearly, while "Men's Fiction" may have...
Most devotees of angels don't pretend to have found a way to confound Providence and repel disaster. They do, however, suggest that the very idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the neighborhoods that were ravaged by riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls...
...such heavy atoms as uranium. That led to A-bombs and today's nuclear power plants. But fusion -- the forcing together of light atomic nuclei, like those of hydrogen -- can release even more energy. The problem is that hydrogen nuclei carry a positive electric charge, and thus they repel one another; they have to be slammed together with terrific force before they will stick. In an H-bomb, that force is provided by a powerful explosive -- an A-bomb, in fact. Inside the sun and other stars, it is a combination of high temperature, which makes the nuclei bounce around...