Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village elders, dressed in black gowns over white robes, advanced in greeting, preceded by the ly-truong, or village chief. We sat around a rectangular table and drank hot tea and tepid beer. A sharp-nosed, black-eyed young man called Nguyen Van Tin explained about the Anti-Communist Youth League, which he had founded last fall...
...Roman Catholic writers as J. F. Powers (Prince of Darkness) and Harry Sylvester (All Your Idols), who portray this kind of priest so movingly that their work is a rebuke to a popular bestseller theory, i.e., that the life of renunciation is jolly as a clambake, soothing as a tepid bath...