Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pittsburgh, he found an orchestra with a skimpy budget of $400,000, a season of 26 weeks, and only lukewarm support from the community. After the departure of Fritz Reiner in 1948, the symphony had gone four years without a permanent conductor; morale was low and performances inconsistent...
Illinois' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, a lukewarm Barry backer, found a Barry groundswell too. Said he: "I feel it among independent, small home owners, in ethnic groups of all kinds, and among rural people. They say Goldwater is a man of courage, of integrity, of character-those are the words they're using at the popular level. They say he says what he means and talks straight. They say he's not a politician...
...tapping their feet with a blistering Tailgate Ramble. Trumpeter Billy Butterfield chimed in with a sweet and solid delivery of Singing the Blues. Crosby led ten enlistees through a lively, give-and-go session of Royal Garden Blues. But betwixt and between, le jazz hot tended to run lukewarm, and when it was over at 3:20 a.m., the Great Moment had never quite happened. M.C.s Crosby and Mercer did their best to keep the music flowing as freely as the whisky backstage, but the profusion of talent was largely wasted in the confusion of an erratic format...
...buried in his neck. Even if she is now 62, the audience loved the feeling. When it was over, she made it mutual. "I must tell you that I have loved you for a long time," she told them. "The reason I love you is because you have no lukewarm emotions-you are either very sad or very happy. I am proud to say I think I have a Russian soul myself." The curtain calls lasted for 15 minutes...
...management did all it could to make the customers comfortable. Crews worked around the clock to clear 7 in. of snow from the track and the 250-acre parking lot (at a cost of $10,000); 146 infra-red heaters burned above the seats, and low-pressure blowers swirled lukewarm air around the feet of the standees in back...