Word: lukewarm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tony Yates dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important...
...permanence of the group," Derek T. Winans '60, a delegate from the Harvard Young Democratic Club, urged permanent proportional representation. Winans stated that his plan would be to give the Forum "substance" and do away with its present ad hoc status. Smith also urged formalization, admitting that "we're lukewarm, waiting to see what develops...
...pass such legislation, in the Senate the bills were referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee. Eastland in turn refered them to the sub-committee on civil rights, but increased that group's membership from three to seven, adding four Senators whose attitude towards such legislation ranges from lukewarm to antagonistic. That sub-committee, in turn, gives every indication of intending to delay action on the bills as long as possible...
...Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophones moaning and wailing, the violins singing sensuously, shrilly...
...votes. They reasoned that such favorite sons as Ohio's Frank Lausche, Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and New Jersey's Robert Meyner would hold their delegations for themselves, at the first sign of firm opposition to Stevenson. They reported that Stevenson's following was lukewarm ("Did you ever see an enthusiastic Stevenson man except for some of those right around him?") and that it would, if Harry said the word, switch from Adlai...