Word: repellent
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Freshmen residing in the Yard are not as optimistic as the police, and vigilante committees have been formed in most halls to repel the Indians. The men in Weld and Matthews Halls will devote most of their attention to holding Dartmouths bent on dousing the statue of John Harvard with green paint...
...Progressive Party have rationalized Wallace's position on Communism and their own embarrassing fellowship with the Communists in the same way that Wallace has rationalized it. There have been signs of restlessness, however. Sooner or later the look of the Third Party's real bosses may repel the sincere non-Communists who are the backbone of the party's voting strength. The bosses may become so obvious that even the blindest Wallaceite will recognize them. Then Wallace will appear to them in the most ignoble role of all: the man who betrayed his friends...
...forces with armed ex-partisans, took several carabinieri prisoners, captured armored cars, posted guns on rooftops, seized the power plant and plunged the city into darkness. In Turin, 30 industrial executives were held as hostages. In Abbadia San Salvatore, in Tuscany, two regiments of government artillery were required to repel workers attacking the nation's main telephone center. At week's end 20 police and rioters were dead and more than 200 were injured...
Toward midnight on the 30th day of the Communist siege, the weary defenders of walled and moated Yinghsien prepared to repel another assault. Outposts had spotted a Red force moving on the Shansi Province town from the southwest...
From the British cruisers Devonshire and Sheffield, marines and troops of the Gloucestershire Regiment fanned out through British Honduras' malaria swamps and forests. They prepared to repel the "irresponsible elements" that were threatening, the British Foreign Office said, to invade from Guatemala (TIME, March...