Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sloppy fielding which caused the loss of both of these encounters, and offset the superlative pitching jobs of Jack Wallace, but Stahl's ace contributed three errors himself, all on tricky grounders to the mound...
...neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came the word that Jan Smuts was its principal sponsor. Perhaps, as in 1919 (see below) he again saw a chance...
...plentiful chemicals-urea and formaldehyde-which are synthesized from coal, air and water. In the impregnating process, wood is pressed and soaked in a methylolurea solution, which is converted by the wood's acids into hard, insoluble resins. The wood becomes brittle, but this disadvantage can be partly offset by impregnating only the outer part of the wood, leaving a resilient core...
...acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...
...Danziger Vorposten wrote with remarkable frankness: "It is stupid and even criminal to put into words what people are thinking in every house, tramway and street." Many Germans are weary, have the jitters. But their sense of discipline and their driving dread of defeat largely offset their fatigue...