Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jane Powell and Wallace Beery, is an innocent little lollipop of a cinemusical. Rachel, which opened late in the month and netted top grosses for the last two weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
...Soviet catspaws in the Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, would no longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...
...condition of the food, I might say it is uniformly cold in most of the Houses. Rich looking roast beef can be disappointing if served only lukewarm. And who likes his boiled potato cold? The butter won't even melt. Carrots often appear unscraped...
...Voicing lukewarm approval...
...Dante condemns the lukewarm, those "miserable souls . . . whom infamy and honor both forgot," to wander in a no man's land beyond the outer circle of hell...