Word: repeller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...