Word: repelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This day . . . marks a year of achievement by a great world organization, dedicated to the employment of the collective strength of free peoples to repel the aggression of international outlaws...
ACHESON: "Senator, if you accomplish what you started out to do, I don't think that is synonymous with saying you stopped where you began. We started out to do two things. One is repel the armed attack, and the other is to restore peace and security in the area. Now, if we do those two things, we have done what we started out to do, and I should think that is success...
...tied? U.N. policy, said Secretary General Trygve Lie, consists of a "hope for negotiations," which, Lie admitted, has had no encouragement from the Chinese Reds. "Unless and until there is such a sign," said Lie, "the United Nations has no alternative but to continue to fight to repel, and if possible, end the aggression in Korea with all the force it can safely commit to that action." Harry Truman offered no more. He sent out his press secretary to tell newsmen that U.S. policy is still the same; specifically, it still includes the "neutralization" of Formosa, which means that...
Taft agreed that a U.S. land army of "reasonable size" (about 1,500,000 men) would be necessary-to repel any invasion of the American continent, to defend a global string of U.S. and allied sea and air bases, and perhaps to fight occasional minor actions in selected areas where there was a clear opportunity for victory. At some later date, if Europe's defense appeared to have "a reasonable chance of success," he would be willing to send "some limited number of American divisions" to help. Until then, and as a basic principle, the nation's allies...
...threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...