Word: repeller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Virginia, or any other state, has all the power it needs to repel insurrection," Tuck said on the radio, adding that states can administer labor Laws before than the federal government...
...other pen which will do so many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...body snatchers signed themselves "Democratic Fascist Party," a blackshirt lunatic fringe. But when rumor spread that the Democratic Fascists would ecstatically hoist Mussolini's remains on the Piazza Venezia's cenotaph, in view of Fascism's most glorious balcony, the police put on extra guards to repel a repulsive resurrection...