Word: lukewarm
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...Carter called for a fair and peaceful transmission of power from the governing white minorities in southern Africa to black majorities; at the same time he issued a tough warning against the growing Cuban and Soviet presence in Africa. To the dismay of Administration officials, the speech got a lukewarm reception from many of the listeners for whom it was intended. Even South Africa's leading black paper, the Johannesburg Post, buried the story on an inside page and did not bother to make an editorial comment...
That does it. We now have more than enough proof to say with confidence that much of the liberal clergy is drifting toward a fuzzy, lukewarm, impotent theology. It drifts and sways according to the faddish thinking of the times...
...know this is late, and Commencement seems long ago, but not looking back and analyzing the Harvard baseball team's performance of this season would be doing a tremendous injustice to one of the school's most remarkable and successful teams in what was surely a lukewarm year for Harvard sports...
...Lukewarm Welcome. The F.Ps have not been received with open arms by everyone. Some specialists say they lack the know-how to handle serious problems. Insists Dr. David Van Gelder, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics: "Where a pediatrician is available, children are better off with a pediatrician." Still, family practitioners maintain that they can diagnose and treat 95% of all ailments they encounter -usually at lower cost. Many medical educators agree. Says Dr. Richard H Moy, dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, which trains F.P.s: "If you are sneezing and go to an allergist...
...Yanks then jumped all over starter Reggie Clevaland (Munson, Roy White, Mickey Rivers, and Chris Chambliss jumped the hardest) and streaked to a 4-1 lead, while the Boston bats-lukewarm at best in the first two tilts of the weekend--were no better than popsicle sticks for the first eight innings, as Yankee hurler Don Gullett cooled any Sox offense...