Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, Gaullists, Communists and some nearsighted or timid middle-of-the-roaders are sure to fight the plan's ratification tooth & nail. The British, at best, are lukewarm. But, as a disgusted German delegate said to a French colleague at the height of the haggling in Paris: "If we go on like this,-we'll be arguing about German rearmament in Siberia...
...first big party for staffers from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe was held by British Field Marshal Montgomery on the lawn before the 17th Century castle of Courances near Fontainebleau. Among the guests who sipped drinks à I'anglaise (lukewarm and weak) and chatted with the host: General & Mrs. Eisenhower...
...interest in it and neither do I." But several were softened and seaway supporters were confident that a committee majority would now recognize that the project's importance rated a vote by the full House. Equally important, the committee chairman, Democrat Charles A. Buckley, was converted from a lukewarm supporter to an ardent seaway enthusiast-despite the violent anti-seaway sentiments of his native New York City. Said he: "My country comes first . . . [The seaway] is essential to American defense...
...network and broadcast classical music in the evenings. Louis Goldberg, music manager of WCOP, explained that his station was already running three hours of concert music a week. "We do some fine things," said Mr. Goldberg, "Not only Beethoven's Ninth, but his Fifth and Fourth!" He expressed a lukewarm desire to play more, but spent most of his time relating the hardships of the radio world, "You can't push any ads on a classical show, and places like Wally's (a local jazz emporium) don't want to advertise on it. You can't run classical...
Faculty members appeared lukewarm this week to any expansion of the religious program for undergraduates...