Word: lukewarm
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...mustard on the ham and cheese and salami and cheese sandwiches comes from Dijon. Onion soup and hot cocoa are the patisserie's only concessions to winter. As in any French, cafe the crockery is so think that whatever beverage or food is hot, coffee or quiche, becomes lukewarm straight away...
...home the response was lukewarm at best. The New York Daily News, one of only two U.S. dailies that bothered to send an expert (U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne) to cover the match, ran most of its accounts on the obituary page. Said Fischer: "Around the world I'm better known than Joe Namath. But in the States I'm a nobody...
...Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a gesture of conciliation, Faulkner advocated the establishment of three new parliamentary committees, two of which would be chaired by opposition members. But Protestant and Catholic alike were lukewarm to the plan. As friction increased early this summer, Catholic opposition leaders boycotted the Ulster Parliament and threatened to set up their own alternative assembly. Guerrilla incidents, meanwhile, were on the increase-caused in most cases by the militant "provisional" wing of the old I.R.A., which favors violent means...
...considerably smaller institution than Harvard, Bunting has been able to maintain close contacts with students and staff. She is aware of births and deaths in staff members' families, writing personal letters on such occasions. And many a groggy Radcliffe student has been startled to look up from a lukewarm bowl of oatmeal to find Bunting on one of her frequent visits to the dining halls. The Grand Design for the Quad was hers, and she kept up with it even down to choosing the curtain material for Mabel Daniels...
...speak. Most students supported the suggestion: one dissenter thought Chomsky's "ideological position would turn a lot of people off." The students voted to invite Chomsky before the two Faculty members of the group-Peretz and James Thomson, assistant professor of History-arrived at the meeting. Both were lukewarm but willing to invite Chomsky; however, trading one radical for one Republican, they pressed the group to also invite Rep. Donald Riegle (R.Mich.). So Riegle spoke-on the numbers of Americans dying and the amounts of American money being spent-and Chomsky talked (last)-on the implications of the off-shore...