Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...
Most of the d'Alverys and their neighbors accept the gentle conventions with which societies strong in tradition try to offset the ravages of change and chance. Their culture is Creole and Catholic. It is also wise in the sense that it is humane and orderly. It enables them (and the readers of The River Road) to accept with equanimity the fact that their quiet lives are as full of scandalous skeletons as the snake-infested plantation burial grounds...
...Glynn R. Donaho, submarine skipper with a long list of kills, told the court flatly that zigzagging is "of no value" in evasive action. In ten seconds, he said, he could correct for a target's change of course. The dubious protection that zigzagging gives a ship is offset by the fact that it allows slower-moving subs to keep...
...have seen war service (in the armed forces, war plants, or any jobs for which draft boards have granted deferments). Added scholars, unlike regular ones, may be married, over 25 and sophomores instead of juniors. The $2,000 a year which scholars get will probably be raised, to offset higher living costs...
Carole Landis, lush, blond cinemactress whose ambition is to graduate from cheese cake pictures to Bette Davis roles, played the outraged woman in an offset drama...