Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereafter, all the decorative oddities, all the artificial-comedy attitudes of The Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...
...anti-Christian forces dominating the leadership introduced into the churches by the suburban captivity far offset the numerical and financial gains . . . The captivity of the church is a national tragedy of the first order, for it occurs at a time when America's position of world leadership requires a prophetic church at home . . . [It] may well be God's word of judgment upon us as his church. For our trespasses and complacency, we have been delivered to Babylon...
From the time of President Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf, educators have sought repeatedly to offset specialization in American colleges. Harvard's General Education program has been one of the broadest of these attempts to infuse, as President Conant wrote, "the liberal and humane tradition into our entire educational system...
...only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...Christian Democratic victory in Sicily only emphasized the divisions of the party in Rome. Rejoicing most was the faction headed by Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani, who had run the campaign, poured money and workers into Sicily to offset the Communists' $10 million election drive, and conclusively demonstrated that he could influence voters and win elections...