Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continue as "the great world leader." New national chairman named to succeed Postmaster General Frank C. Walker: Missouri's young, professional Robert E. Hannegan (TIME, Jan. 24). Convention city: Chicago. Campaign theme: twelve years of Roosevelt v. twelve years of oldtime G.O.P. "normalcy." Now, Committeemen muttered grimly, lukewarm Democratic Congressmen who have been sniping at the New Deal and then coasting into office on the Roosevelt coattails will have to come to the aid of the Party...
Soldiers who have been in action want their women to join, but servicemen who have not yet been overseas still think a woman's place is home. The male civilian has come around to a lukewarm endorsement of the idea for others but balks at the thought of his "little woman" joining...
That was an interesting and enlightening Background for Peace. . . . But there was one thing about it that bothered me - the rather lukewarm and qualified nature of the praise bestowed on Ely Culbertson's World Federation Plan...
Behind Curtin are the country's mighty, watchful trade unions, as anxious about the peace as they are about the war. Conservative charges that Curtin has mollycoddled coal strikers and is using the war to advance socialism have met with a lukewarm reception. Curtin has done much to increase the war effort. On his record, Curtin's Labor Party wants to improve its majority in the House of Representatives, a majority previously dependent on the votes of two Independents. It also wants to win at least 16 of 19 vacant seats and obtain a majority in the Senate...
...political dictatorship of Benito Mussolini had given way to a military dictatorship propped up by the generals, aristocrats and high clerics. But the people, having broken the bonds of 21 years of artificial national unity, did not want the new regime. From lukewarm collaboration they shifted now to bitter hostility. Italy had reached the opening stage of civil...