Word: repelling
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...veteran Harvard defense should repel the inexperienced line, and harry Brown's senior quarterback Bill Pienias...
...fairgrounds. This year the Republicans are pushing that tradition to new limits by turning Dan Quayle into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says a senior G.O.P. adviser: "You won't see Bush even with a cutout of Quayle." This strategist admits the image of Clinton and Gore working so closely in tandem "points up the weaknesses Quayle brings...
...almost constant bombardment, now well into its fourth month, by Serb forces firing from the surrounding hillsides. All day, every day, the talk in the building hallways is of Western military intervention or, failing that, distribution of weapons so that the 300,000 people of Sarajevo can repel the onslaught with their own hands. "The liberation of the town is more important than food," says Puzic, 37, an economist and mother of two. "We all fear that the West now thinks it has done enough...
...Cold Harbor, say, or the Wilderness, the public might have been so sickened that it would have abandoned the struggle. The country might have split into the United States and the Confederate States; slavery might have survived a long time. Some think seeing executions on television would so repel the public that it would abolish capital punishment. Some believe showing such vivid evidence of the punishment would deter people from committing the crimes. Perhaps. Or would televised executions become something like what they were once -- grisly popular entertainments...
HELICOPTERS FANNED OUT OVER MORE THAN 30,000 acres of the state of Washington last week in an emergency campaign to repel an airborne assault launched from across the Bering Sea. No, the ex-Soviet Union had not reconstituted itself and invaded. Instead the object of the search-and-destroy spraying mission was the Asian gypsy moth, which in its caterpillar stage is notorious for devouring the leaves of perhaps 600 varieties of trees and shrubs...