Word: repellent
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...measure of Moscow's desperation was the procedure that the Soviets used for summoning the General Assembly into emergency session. The procedure was first devised by the U.S. in 1950 in order to obtain U.N. authority to repel Communist aggression in Korea. At that time, the Russians damned as illegal what they themselves employed last week...
...Brown and Harvard lacrosse teams scored 22 goals between them yesterday. but, in the end, the game was won where the coaches say it's always won -- on defence. The visiting Bruins were able to repel a last-minute barrage of Crimson shots to hold onto a 12-10 victory at Cumnock Field...
Sidney Nolan's drawings do not, in general, add much to this excellent book. Where the intent is light humor, they succeed modestly; but Lowell and Juvenal are similar in that they frequently intend to repel through the use of humor not light but grim, and Mr. Nolan's attempts to repel only amuse. But one buys the book to read Lowell, and what one reads is surely contemporary poetry of the first rank. After twenty years, this seems for the present generation closer to fact than opinion, though taste in succeeding ones will doubtless fluctuate. For the present...
...until such a force is created, Heath said, Britain must continue to discharge its own world commitments. The most expensive way of saving money is to pull troops prematurely out of a country Heath said. He insisted that British troops must remain in those countries which cannot repel foreign aggression or prevent domestic insurrection, he said...
...defend the Christian empire, and St. Augustine, faced with the waves of barbarian invasions, built upon the codes of Aristotle, Plato and Cicero the Christian concept of the just war. First, he said, the motive must be just: "Those wars may be defined as just which avenge injuries" or repel aggression. A just war must be fought with Christian love for the enemy-the Sermon on the Mount was supposed to be followed as "an inward disposition." No one, wrote the saint, "is fit to inflict punishment save the one who has first overcome hate in his heart. The love...