Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston College officials are anxious to schedule attractive college bills, hoping to attract the lukewarm basketball...
...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
...week's end, John McCloy had still not made up his mind. But the longer the Bank's presidency remained unfilled, the gloomier grew prospects for floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...
...Bracken. Cried Toronto's Globe & Mail: "A personal Victory for Mr. John Bracken." It was indeed-and more. For the second time since he has led the party, Bracken had stumped so effectively that he had licked the Liberals on their home field. Many Conservatives, who had been lukewarm about Bracken's leadership, were now sold...
...unenthusiastically crowded square in Burgos last week one of Europe's last remaining old-school dictators rose to congratulate himself. On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power even Francisco Franco himself displayed only lukewarm enthusiasm. "Sometimes," he mused, "I wonder what will happen if the people who have given me their support in these past ten years will give me some support for more years when our problems are solved...