Word: repelling
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From the training camp, troops graduate to the volcanic black sand beaches not far away. There, facing the mainland, they build concrete pillboxes, string barbed wire, drill endlessly to repel the invasion from the sea. In their off-duty hours, the soldiers sing a new army song...
...ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation of their Jewish and Mormon colleagues . . ." If they did so, said Scientist Murdock, "the youth of this country might flock to the churches that now repel them, and religion might even be restored to that position of central world significance which it enjoys in most societies but has lost...
...small military mission, possibly no more than 20 officers, along the line of Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet's mission to Greece. Some time early in the year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...
...same time, the noted news analyst called upon the United States to repel with force if necessary any attempt to annex Formosa. Terming Formosa vital to U.S. military security in Asia, Kaltenborn said, "We have a naval force in the Pacific and should make it known immediately that we are prepared to use it should Formosa be invaded...
...subjective artist. He is greatly moved by a sunset and transfers his emotion to paper in the form of a vague line which to him means the father and mother of all bones. This interpretation of the sunset is strictly subjective; it does not attract and may repel non-dogs who do not share the artist's experience and digestive system...