Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have H-bombs; the British will produce them. The United States concentrates on such weapons to offset the superior manpower of the Soviet bloc. Thus we have a competition in means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...
...plants are antiquated and its invasion of the South consisted of buying an old tobacco warehouse and an ancient mill. But Royal Little's reasons for wanting American were plain: it has $28 million in working capital and a $30 million tax loss that can be used to offset future profits. Said a Little man last week: "Textron has the management, Robbins has the plants, American Woolen has the money...
...foreign policy" and its "open propaganda and preparations for a new war." He blustered against the Paris agreements, and warned Germany "they would render it impossible, for a long period, to re-establish Germany's unity." He talked of countermeasures: a new unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is ... the . . . laggard...
Lawrence, the pint-sized, introverted Oxford scholar who rose from an obscure post in the Civil Service to lead the desert Arabs in revolt against their Turkish oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world...