Word: lukewarm
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Khrushchev's real net: he was turning lukewarm about a chiefs-of-state meeting at the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council-"You know very well ... it has not decided anything so far"-instead preferred private talks. Khrushchev's guest list: the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain, France, India, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Places to go: New York, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Moscow...
Until now the U.S. has been lukewarm to the idea of Pan American summit talks. Washington would prefer a meeting of foreign ministers for hard conference work, topping that meeting off with a symbolic gathering of Presidents afterward. The U.S. view is widely understood; Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares resigned last week in protest over Kubitschek's call for presidential talks...
...pass its program without Democratic votes?" But mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican pros. In one day Meade Alcorn got 18 pro-Adams telephone calls from national committeemen and state chairmen. And Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson, ordinarily a lukewarm supporter of Sherman Adams, was suddenly on fire. Said he: "It was the best speech of them all. We would like to use Adams any time we could...
...were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...
Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions...