Word: repellent
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...presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan Kortlandt of the University of Amsterdam, has proposed an intriguing answer. In the current Journal of Human Evolution, he suggests that early man was able to use thorny branches to repel the most dangerous predators: large carnivorous cats...
...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...
While Williams continued to repel Northeastern's bullets from the point, the Harvard defense let up a little and allowed three more Northeastern scores before the period ended...
That may be, at least in the short run, a critical deficiency in Carter's policy. The U.S. at present does not have the military forces to repel any Soviet invasion of the Persian Gulf area. The U.S. now has 21 warships, including two aircraft carriers, in the Indian Ocean. But their planes can be used only for lightning strikes. Pentagon officials admit that the U.S. would require at least a month of preparation before landing units that could fight for any length of time. The problem is primarily one of supply. The troops could be moved in quickly...
...others, which exist on the sub-atomic level, were developed to resolve specific problems. Ernest Rutherford's celebrated early twentieth century experiments on nuclear density uncovered an empirical contradiction: all the protons (positively charged species) in a given atom are concentrated in its nucleus; since like charges repel one another, the nucleus should theoretically burst apart. So physicists coined the "strong" forces--those which specifically...