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repellent
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repellent
a substance with which fabrics are treated to increase their resistance to water


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But before describing how Gehrig handled his tragic destiny, listen to another story about a modern ballplayer and how he handled what anyone would consider a disappointment, although certainly no colossal tragedy worthy of the rebarbative display to which the public was subjected.
To those who know his indispensable biography of John Paul II (Witness to Hope), and his more recent and rebarbative little manifesto for a uniquely American form of pugnaciously born-again Catholicism, The Courage To Be Catholic, there will be few surprise in this part of the book.
We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored.
 
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