Word: lukewarm
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...Corporation members may be having about a reenactment of the noise, marches and discomfort of that spring will probably remain fuzzy and fearful speculation. SASC activity and support have decreased drastically over the past two years, and reaction to events on the investment-policy front has become increasingly lukewarm...
Debate ensued on a different level when the Faculty convened Tuesday. Though Gomes and the other Faculty members of his committee rose to present reasoned pleas for the Foundation, reception to the proposal proved lukewarm...
...beginning but more substantially over time if the effort attracts sustained commitment and achieves constructive results"? (Bok does not say exactly what will constitute "constructive results.") One can only surmise that Bok commissioned the Games committee to appease minority students and defuse potential protest. And his current lukewarm stance toward the Foundation can be explained by a desire to appease the Faculty and defuse potential objection to that much-publicized anathema, the emphasis of separation between different races...
...King Juan Carlos' first official tour of Spain's volatile, autonomy-minded Basque country, and the reception was often only lukewarm, sometimes hostile. Security forces outnumbered the crowds nearly everywhere, and at most of their stops-from Vitoria to San Sebastian -the King and his wife, Queen Sofia, also had to endure the presence of angry Basque demonstrators, who were raising clenched-fist salutes and chanting anthems and slogans in their ancient language...
...nitz was at best a lukewarm Nazi, but he was a tough sailor in the service of the Third Reich. As commander of Hitler's lethal submarine force, he masterminded the sinking of 14 million tons of Allied shipping during World War II. It may have been Dönitz's U-boat successes that led a desperate Hitler to designate him as his successor near the end of the war. The admiral subsequently ran the doomed country for 23 days, staving off the inevitable surrender while he operated a hasty sealift through the Baltic, enabling 2 million...