Word: repellingly
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...initial manufacturing investment is huge and the product standardized, individual companies set their own prices not directly in terms of their own supply and demand, but in terms of the industry's as a whole. Price is a sort of community-owned snickersnee, drawn when necessary to repel invaders, but not for civil strife. So long as the price is such as to maximize the industry's profits, each company fights for its individual share (and often, as in the tobacco industry, very fiercely) with less dangerous weapons, such as advertising...
...That the Peruvians "headed for Portovelo where the Ecuadorian Government runs a gold mine" is simply a fantastic tale. Peru has done nothing except repel an aggression and take possession of the places where it started...
...Miss Kelly's lack of detachment and weakness for sermonizing turn what might have been a study of modern marriage into a sort of book of marital etiquette. Like any etiquette book, it will repel many readers who travel in a different set from the author's, or who speak a different dialect...
...Spanish Civil War, in which he commanded the British battalion of the International Brigade, Tom Wintringham wrote and harangued against the spit-&-polish, close-order drill snobbery of Sandhurst. In a handbook called New Ways of War (TIME, Nov.11), he insisted that the only way to repel an invasion was to supplement Britain's regular forces with an army of 4,000,000 civilians trained with maximum democracy and efficiency. To this end the Home Guard Training School was organized, and Tom taught his men sniping, barricading, bombing with homemade bombs, garroting, how to decapitate an onrushing enemy motorcyclist...
...respect the man who whirled them casually about his head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied together, became adept. Interest...