Word: lukewarm
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...this discussion of religion . . . is doing the Catholic Church more good than harm by showing the ridiculousness of the arguments against the Church and by making Catholic champions of many Catholics who have been lukewarm...
...rerun market, BBC-TV is riding on The Third, Man series, based loosely on the adventures of Harry Lime-so loosely in fact, that Novelist Graham Greene, who wrote the original screenplay, has sternly dissociated himself from his kid brother's serial. Though The Third Man got a lukewarm critical reception in London, it has been bought for $1,500,000 (recouping the production cost) by Budweiser and Rheingold beers, will be shown on U.S. screens this fall. Another sales success: a Canadian Mountie series, snapped up by 20 U.S. cities the first week it was shown. Coming soon...
...them. For over six months the new unit had been taking in patients whose needs are not urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths, eat in a cafeteria that has all the liveliness of a summer cookout...
Challenger Cormier, who runs a stationery shop in Rumford (pop. 9,954), was a lukewarm Republican until 1945, when she dropped in on a Democratic town meeting "as something to do for an evening," liked the Democrats and their message. In 1947 she was elected to the state legislature, became Maine's Democratic national committeewoman (1948-56), rolled up a reputation as such a strong vote getter (especially among her fellow French Catholics) that she has run unopposed in recent elections...
...Heavy Price." In contrast with the night of cries and hoarse cheers, the formal joint session of India's Parliament next day seemed a world apart. Ike's speech to Parliament had been planned as the highlight of his Asian trip but it got only a lukewarm reception (13 desk-banging applause interruptions), partly because it said some things about force that neutralist Indians did not particularly want to hear, left unsaid some others-such as a massive foreign-aid commitment or a resounding promise to fight beside India in case of Chinese invasion-that they wanted very...