Word: repellent
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...Rhee, angry because a last-minute head count by the Indians had sent 135 more prisoners (who presumably had changed their minds) back to the Communists, threatened to attack the Indian guards. The U.N. command told Rhee, in effect, that if this happened the Eighth Army would have to repel the assault...
With its foul barracks language, its uninhibited love scenes and its overall air of don't give a damn, The Blue Hussars is sure to repel a lot of readers. What it offers as a reward is Author Nimier's talent for keeping people and action alive...
...Binding Force. Dr. Hans A. Bethe, head theoretical physicist in the wartime atom-bomb project, is baffled by the force that makes matter hold together. According to all known laws, the particles (or waves) that form atomic nuclei should repel one another. Instead, they cling tightly to one another with a force that is 1037 (ten trillion trillion trillion) times as strong as the force of gravitation. This force, oddly, has only a short range. At a distance of 2.5 x 10-12 centimeters (one four-thousandth of the radius of an atom), it diminishes almost to nothing...
...victory of the kind I have in mind will have to be followed by a peace without vengeance. The U.N. Charter provides for all manner of actions to repel aggression, but it makes no provision for the ultimate punishment of the aggressor once the fruits of his aggression are taken away from him ... It does not foresee the use of force to secure the fruits of victory in terms of land and power...
...clerks and armed men headed by a doughty Arabian named Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan. They started wooing the bewildered inhabitants and chiefs with lavish feasts, silver riyals and sweet talk. Immediately, the Trucial Sheik of Abu Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat appealed to their "protector" Great Britain to repel the "invaders...