Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reischauer questioned whether the stragetic value of keeping the Reds out of Formosa was enough to offset the loss of United States face in Asia caused by supporting Chiang. "Fortunately," he added, "the defense of Formosa is tied in with Korea, and when we, leave Korea we can quietly retreat from Formosa...
...power was based on the rural vote and Georgia's unique, decrepit county-unit system. Roy himself was born on a farm in southeast Georgia, knew his woolhatters and had something on almost every politician in the state. In a state where 122 city votes can be offset with one tame woolhatter in a rural county and 25 woolhatters can sometimes swing a county, Roy's system worked fine...
Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis and Arthur Treacher work to make the film's burlesque of gangster customs fitfully amusing, though it is never good enough to offset a phony love story that insists on taking itself seriously. As the truculent brat who poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering...
...blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
...order to offset Russian victories in the cold war, the United States must greatly increase its production and its imports during the next ten years, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, claims in the current June issue of the Atlantic Monthly...