Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americana (RKO-Radio) might easily have been just one more plate of canned, tepid chile con carne served up as a hemispheric good-will offering. But Producer-Director John H. Auer and several of his players have turned it into a rather entertaining and realistic little picture...
Lady Chatterley, the late D. H. Lawrence's famed free-loving heroine, had one account of her conduct upheld. New York State's Court of Special Sessions considered The First Lady Chatterley (tepid first version of Lady Chatterley's Lover), found by a 2-to-1 decision that there was "reasonable doubt" of its obscenity...
...naval air zealots' way of thinking, the only choice for the Navy's top air job is a top-flight airman. Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around. That was the reason joy was only tepid. The man picked to fill McCain's shoes was another naval officer belatedly made into an airman: genial, 60-year-old Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch...
...viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
...pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop Heaslett had the privilege of having food sent in from a nearby restaurant. He shared this with his cellmates, noting that there was "neither coarseness nor apparent greed among them...