Word: offseting
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...Bulge. He spread his forces thin, he says, and accepted the calculated risk of a German attack so that the troops and supplies released could be used in attacks elsewhere. Yet he admits that intelligence reports had shown a German buildup there, and that nothing was done to offset it. Ike's own explanation seems a little lame: "This type of report is always coming from one portion or another of a front. The commander who took counsel only of all the gloomy intelligence estimates would never win a battle; he would forever be sitting, fearfully waiting...
...gets the right to pass on the hiring of the play's directors, players, company manager, stage manager, pressagent and costumer. One clause commits the management to give her footlights, which have been going out of fashion on the New York stage. Tallulah insists on them because they offset overhead lights that throw unflattering shadows...
...mediocre workout was somewhat offset by news from the medical room, where Dr. Thomas B. Quigley announced that Captain Ken O'Donnell might be able to play against Yale Saturday for more than the one play needed to win a letter. No explanation was offered for the miraculous recovery of O'Donnell, who allegedly broke his leg against Princeton less than two weeks...
...Taft-Hartley law was the fighting issue, even though many other actions of the 80th Congress did not please labor. The Republican leadership in Congress had sponsored and pushed through the law. The fact that a majority of Democrats voted for the law was offset by the strong veto of the President. The Taft-Hartley Law made it impossible for even Republican labor leadership to endorse Governor Dowey. Under the New Deal there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union...
...real issues are Herter's reactionary foreign and domestic record, and O'Brien's fine record of service to the poor and working people of Boston. We cannot support the belief that Herter's foreign policy achievements "should be enough to offset domestic conservatism on election day." Rather, if these are his most important achievements, they are more than valid bases for his defeat. Harvard Committee for Wallace