Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read of the proposed hike in room and board for Radcliffe. Not that we are totally out to ruin the Cliffie image of soiled hair et al., but we have been without hot water for three weeks--except at odd hours of the early morning. This has meant lukewarm washings of dinner dishes as well, which does nothing for the desirability of our meals. Before the college seeks to rectify the deficit in its budget, it should perhaps consider the inferior "room and board" it is now giving its students at the high price they are paying. Third Short Corridor
...swaggers when he remembers his older brother Brian was made fun of by his football teammates. Brian was an introspective second-string quarterback who spent most of high school fooling with guitars, recorders, and saxophones. Never lukewarm or moderate about any topic, Dennis considers Brian a genius. Brian skipped this road tour, Dennis explains, to finish writing some new songs...
...whip's job. This time around, Pastore, at least, has declared himself out of the running. Said he: "I see no reason why Long should not continue as whip along with his other committee assignments. So far as the whip's office is concerned, I was lukewarm to it last year, and today I am absolutely frigid...
...named for the Hindu goddess of prosperity, but in her 27 years she has prospered only by pregnancy: married at 13, she is today the mother of six. Each morning at 5:30, Ramoo rises and trots off to the village well to bathe himself with buckets of lukewarm, silty water, then returns to his clay-walled hut and squats on the cow-dung floor for breakfast: a thick chapatty (wheat pancake) and a brass tumbler of scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed...
Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage, in Novak's opinion, was the event that threw the market mechanism most violently out of whack. It removed Rockefeller from the number one position in the race and, more important, showed just how lukewarm his support had been all along...