Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical facilities, the President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation (TIME, Jan. 14) took advice from Harry Truman himself. It decided to go on the road, hold "whistle stop" public hearings in eight major cities beginning next month. In most places, organized doctors were lukewarm to the idea, but in Houston they boiled over, denounced the commission as a political maneuver and a waste of time & money. The commission figured its Texas hearing might have to be held in Dallas...
...complete with his Hollywood toupee, was as pleasantly relaxed and as glibly polysyllabic on TV as he is on radio and in the movies. He traded familiar insults with Bob Hope; exchanged small talk with Guest Dorothy Lamour; moaned in true TV-Comic fashion whenever the studio audience seemed lukewarm, and crooned such songs as Home on the Range. When the Telethon ended its allnight, two-network (CBS and NBC), stand, Hope, Crosby and friends had collected pledges for more than $1,000,000. Crosby also seems assured of a lively and profitable TV career whenever he wants it. Said...
Maximum Risk. Limited hot pursuit (or lukewarm pursuit) puts General Clark and his soldiers in another of the stupid and dangerous positions that have characterized the war in Korea. It exposes them to maximum risks, ties their hands for counteraction. As General Clark reported last week, the Reds have used the eleven months of truce talks to double their air and ground strength...
Though Lace on Her Petticoat made a lukewarm impression on Manhattan critics, it impressed Herman Shumlin's fellow producers mightily. Reason: the play, first legitimate production of the new season, cost only $36,000 to put on, and can survive on a weekly gross of $8,100. Despite adverse notices, it appeared at week's end that Shumlin's low operating costs might enable his backers to get something of a run for their money...
...Britain's man in Iran was unimpressed. British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, lukewarm about the Harriman mission before it started, was now openly skeptical. After the Iranian offer, he went around to see Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi with a several-day-old irrelevant message about the World Court decision on Iran (TIME, July 16) and complaints against treatment of British personnel in Abadan. Kazemi rushed to tell Mossadeq, who was so upset that he did what he usually does on such occasions: he promptly fainted...