Word: repellently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent California campaign. If McGovern is too radical for Humphrey, they will say . .. And leave the sentence dangling. If Humphrey himself should get the nomination, the Republicans are confident that they could take him nearly as easily. The White House regards Humphrey as a used-up politician who would repel the young, probably trigger a splinter party of the left and be vulnerable because of his old associations with the Johnson Administration, which the Republicans would probably refer to as "the Humphrey-Johnson Administration...
Earlier in the day, before arresting the occupants of the Union, police used mace to repel a group of students attempting to join those still inside the building. One policeman was reportedly injured by a brick during the incident...
...FAILED logic of Nixon's Vietnamization policy can now be measured by his newest campaigns against North Vietnam. If the Thieu government had the legitimacy or the strength to repel the offensive, these campaigns would not be necessary. How far will the United States now go to maintain a regime that cannot stand...
...dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want to mobilize our country old and young. We would not attack first, but we are ready to mobilize to repel any intruders." But who? Americans? Russians? Japanese? Said Kung: "We have to let history tell...
...some what loony martinet. If that version is far closer to truth, it somehow discourages reflection upon the captain's tortuous character. Mixed in with the sheer fudge and swashbuckle, there was in Arnheiter the pathetic likeness of an honorable inspiration: drilling the crew in riflery to repel prospective boarders, trying to lay on the young seamen some sort of religious inspiration, holding sessions about the strategic purpose of the war. The disobeying of orders to get near the enemy, too - how often have such devices been tried, and forgiven afterward when they were successful, by such naval heroes...