Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political and business experience by an engaging candor: "Lots of people ask me questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan of World War I's nurse Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough...
Southern Retreat. Good news from the north was partially offset by bad tidings from the south. There, on the road to Rumania, the Red Command admitted withdrawals-its first in ten weeks. (Berlin promptly blossomed out with a report of ten Soviet infantry divisions and several tanks corps "wiped...
...printing will be done by offset lithography on two high-speed, roll-fed presses which will dry the printing ink instantaneously by speeding the web of paper through infra-red rays. Incidentally, the magazine use of this equipment is such a new development that in a day when no new presses can be built we could not have started this venture if we had not located our second press 2,000 miles away in Detroit-and if our printers had not obtained WPB permission to move the press and other equipment to the Coast by pointing out all the transcontinental...
...four wartime sessions in Parliament he has painstakingly and in great detail laid down the wartime record of his Government. But in the chamber which he has so often used as a sounding board, he has not yet stated a national issue to offset the declining popularity of his Government. As the Gallup polls show, his administration, like all other wartime governments, now suffers the usual political reaction to regimentation and control...
...offset this caution, Wendell Willkie planned more speeches, more trips. Said he: "Voters are watching to see if we have the imagination and courage...