Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates from socialist-minded nations, that private enterprise should and could shoulder an increasing share of the burden. The most dramatic evidence of renewed faith in free enterprise came from Reserve Bank of India Governor H. V. R. Iengar, close friend and adviser to Prime Minister Nehru. Disavowing the tepid brand of socialism long preached by Nehru, Iengar emphasized that India is looking to private capital and free enterprise to develop its resources and industrialize the nation...
Less than a month after Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed self-government for Eastern and Western Nigeria, the tropic Federation got its first Prime Minister and installed its first all-Nigerian Cabinet in the capital of Lagos, beside the tepid green waters of the Bight of Benin.* Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a Northern Moslem, became Nigeria's first Prime Minister. In a graceful speech opening Parliament, Balewa paid tribute to British statesmanship and the service of Christian missionaries, spoke of the "tremendous good will" that existed between Britain and Nigeria, but emphasized that he and his ministers are" "irrevocably committed...
...basic rules for preparing curare vary little over millions of square miles, reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
...under the restrictions of the formidable Versailles etiquette. And the lively Queen was bored to death by ceremonials so hopelessly elaborate that it was impossible for her to drink a glass of cold water: the royal glass was obliged to pass through so many hands that it was always tepid when it reached her lips...
...shows have aroused neither scorn nor outraged contempt, and they have had serious attention from critics. But the general reaction of both press and public has been rather tepid and indifferent. Nevertheless, the shows' sponsors feel a sense of accomplishment. Said Collector Lawrence Fleischman, whose fine collection of American paintings (TIME, Sept. 10) was sent abroad by USIA last year: "In this propaganda battle today, Russia's weakest point is that its artists have to create according to the way the government tells them. Nobody who sees these shows can fail to understand that our artists paint...