Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than any other sociological method in the world." Unlike the ripsnorting old Sozis of the 1920s with their red caps and red scarves, the Schumacher Socialists of today have lost their enthusiasm for all-out nationalization of "all means of production, distribution and exchange" and advocate a more tepid Socialism like the Swedes and the British Laborites. They want some nationalization, some private ownership. They advocate something called Mitbestimmung (co-determination), which means giving workers the right to share with management in the operation of industry...
Assuming that one can procure a likely lovely, the necessary appendage of the season, and a straw hat, and assuming that one tires of sitting on the banks of the Charles, the question of "whither" is a tepid...
...wandered listlessly out of Sanders Theatre and watched the shirtsleeve crowd restlessly loose itself in the tepid air. It was his second evening of struggle with the sterile god of science at the first Summer School conference, and he wearily confessed to himself that he was not equal to a third. Science and Society and Science and Philosophy left him in a strangely unscientific mood; he looked at his watch and remembered that he had forgotten to call Mabel. Science and History, he decided, would have to get along without...
...tepid calm of the election campaign hardly changed in the homestretch. Most meetings were humdrum, badly attended, polite. There were only a few brawls. In Nice, Communists and Gaullists clashed in a gun fight: three Communists were wounded. In Paris, leftists and Gaullists broke up a meeting of followers of former Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain who were campaigning for his release...
Meanwhile, the rest of the family fiddle at their own futilities. Pierre's wife has a tepid flirtation; Mama Lasquin is pleasantly excited to discover that the departed Papa Lasquin has had a mistress; Papa's brother-in-law appropriates the mistress...