Word: repellingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India faces more serious problems than reconciling its propaganda with demonstrable facts. Now that military action has been taken against the Portuguese, Nehru will find it difficult to explain his refusal to resist and repel Red China's border incursions. Gone is Nehru's argument that he will "negotiate and negotiate and negotiate to the bitter end" the Sino-Indian frontier disputes. Continued backing-down will lay Nehru open to the charge that he has double standards of courage...
India, said Nehru, would not be bullied by the Red Chinese. He revealed that in a note from Peking, Red China had issued a veiled threat to India that it might send troops across the frontier. India, said Nehru, would "resist and repel" such measures. "I do not rule out war," he told the Parliament. "We are friendly with every country in the world. But we will fight with China. My desire is to avoid it but not to submit as well. If we have to take such a step, we will take it." But, he added, "I am free...
...fission-fusion (H-bomb) explosions, a large part of the released energy appears in the form of high-speed neutrons. Since the neutrons are small and have no electric charge to make atoms repel them, they can penetrate a great deal of matter. So they escape from the fireball and travel a mile or more through the air. They are deadly killers, but existing H-bombs, which are bulky and require fission detonators, generate so much heat and blast that the neutrons they manufacture are lost in the general destruction...
...leading exponent of mediation before the Cuban defeat, was reported to be in favor of some form of OAS sanctions. Known to be deeply shocked at Castro's blatant Communism, Quadros last week issued a joint statement with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, calling on Latin American nations to repel "any direct or indirect interference of extracontinental forces...
...opposing explanation, the "steady-state" theory, holds that matter is being created continuously in the form of hydrogen atoms that appear in space. Little by little, the newborn matter clumps together, forming galaxies that repel each other and move apart. As they grow old and separate, new galaxies form in the widening gaps between them. The steady-state universe has no center or outer boundary. It had no beginning and will have...