Word: repellingly
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...given Mao Zedong marching orders. Now comes the first official evidence that Mao acted on his own in the interests of national defense. Smuggled to the West, a collection of Mao's secret telegrams from 1950 appears to vindicate scholars who have long argued that Beijing sought to repel what it feared was U.S. encroachment. Otherwise, Mao warns in one message, "the American invaders will run more rampant" and encourage "the arrogance of reactionaries" in China. Stanford historian Gordon Chang says the cables show how many signals were missed by a couple of powers that behaved "like...
...hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot to repel any seizure. Nonetheless, local riot police in Azerbaijan have hijacked some army trucks full of ammunition. It is not inconceivable that future raiders or army mutineers might grab some nukes...
...experience where victims have used alcohol leading up to what becomes a sexual assault. A prosecutor should be able to present a picture that says yes, she did x, y and z, and that's what made her more vulnerable, that's what made her less able to repel an attacker. You have to get the jury to see that you may not want to take this woman home to dinner because she was doing cocaine all night or shooting heroin and then drinking beer chasers, but that doesn't mean she asked...
...American eyes during World War II, along with the sturdy peasants depicted in the novels of Pearl Buck. The U.S. armed and supported Chiang as an important ally in the struggle against Japan. Washington was wrong again: Chiang spent more energy attacking Mao Zedong's communists than trying to repel the Japanese invaders...
...only just getting under way. Last week a team of scientists sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society, among others, began their first flights to analyze the composition, density and persistence of the smoke. One important question: Does the smoke naturally repel water or, as El-Baz and some other scientists suspect, actually seed clouds by providing nuclei for raindrops...