Word: lukewarmness
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...forcibly grafted on to the native population of Jordan in 1948. At the same time, the country was inundated by tens of thousands of other Palestinians who fled from Israel. Of Hussein's 2,200,000 subjects, two-thirds are now Palestinians, and the majority are at best lukewarm to him. But the country's remaining 700,000 or so people had always been considered loyal to the throne. It is within this group that the decline in allegiance is taking place...
...talked proudly of "our revolution." Algeria and Libya, at one point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan and so did Kuwait, which was contributing $39.2 million. Even Hussein's lukewarm friends, like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, can no longer be counted on for support. After Guerrilla Chieftain Arafat skipped out of Jordan and met with Nasser in Cairo to brief him on the battle, Egypt's President fired off a scathing protest accusing Hussein of lying, breaking...
DuBridge said that he was quitting because of age (he will be 69 next month). But his friends had a more pointed explanation: he had become intensely dismayed by attacks from fellow scientists, who blamed him for what they considered the Administration's lukewarm attitude toward science. He was especially stung a few weeks ago when the prestigious scientific journal Nature described him as "too shy, even gauche -not the kind of fellow who is able to create the illusion of being a means by which the scientific community can make its voice heard in high places...
...whole thing is clearly a case of chicanery for profit and fame. The Philips contract has brought Rosemary $2,000 to $3,000 but can be expected to earn more. If Rosemary is in touch with Liszt, the best way to prove it is not to produce the lukewarm but pleasant Grubelei she claims to have received from him, but to discover something from the past, perhaps Liszt's now vanished manual of piano technique, which he wrote for the Geneva Conservatoire. The spirits that mediums raise always inconveniently refuse to answer the very questions that would prove their...
...which one will show up," says the station's general manager, Ray Stanfield, "but one of them always does." Mickie, married to a doctor, is the mother of two. Teddi, wife of a lawyer, has three children. Both admit that before the Peabody Award their husbands were somewhat lukewarm about their careers, but things are different now: their husbands are so impressed that they may start listening to the show...