Word: repellent
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Then the Times rashly accused Irish Patriot Charles Stewart Parnell of condoning murder by Irish terrorists, and as evidence printed a letter supposedly written by Parnell. The government inquiry that proved the letter a forgery cost the paper ?200,000, wrecked its reputation and left it without capital to repel the privateers of the penny press...
...Before the world," he cried, "I accuse President [Juan Jose] Arevalo of Guatemala of fomenting and supplying arms for a revolution in Nicaragua. If this revolution breaks out, it may result in a Central American conflagration. I am ready to repel this aggression and it may turn out to be a boomerang for Arevalo, who is interfering in the internal affairs of Nicaragua...
...atomic nuclei (except those of hydrogen) contain two or more protons. These have positive charges, and so should repel each other violently. Instead, they are held together by a mysterious attraction. For a generation, physicists have wondered what the attraction...
...Trib still sees silk-hatted Wall Street bankers lurking around every State Street corner, and redcoats behind every red oak tree. (In 1943, its publisher solemnly told a Detroit audience that after World War I he had helped the U.S. General Staff work out plans to repel an invasion from Canada by 300,000 British regulars.) But even when it is up to no good, Colonel McCormick's xenophobic "World's Greatest Newspaper" is one of the last, anachronistic citadels of muscular personal journalism...
...Iowa State College a professor of chemical engineering predicted the self-dusting chair-a plastic product with a slight negative charge of electricity which would repel dust particles...