Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were several reasons for the tepid response of the delegates. It is clear the idea of a national service corps lacks the glamour and adventure of the Peace Corps. Innoculating babies in a Philadelphia slum, albeit a desperately needed service, is just not the same thing as innoculating babies in Lagos, Nigeria...
Midcult, Macdonald believes, is spreading like a "tepid ooze" through American culture. It showed up in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, in which the vivid language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter...
Reed is so free that it runs completely on the honor system, from exams to evening "intervisitation" between boys and girls in the dormitories. Reed is so anti-organization that it has no fraternities and only the most tepid intercollegiate athletics-a dart competition with a Catholic seminary, a basketball game with the University of Oregon's dental school. The usual weekend diet is study, study, study...
...incumbent Governors in the U.S. whose plurality did not shrink from the previous election. Hatfield was just too much for Democratic State Attorney General Robert Thornton, who never had a chance. But Hatfield missed another sort of chance: he gave only the most tepid support to a weak G.O.P. ticket mate, Senate Candidate Sig Unander, who did well in losing to Democrat Wayne Morse. If popular Mark Hatfield had gone all-out for Unander, he might have helped rid the U.S. Senate of its windiest member...
...listless acceptance speech to a hall half filled with dead-weary delegates. He spoke with all the enthusiasm of a Georgia sixth-grader reciting the Emancipation Proclamation, and even his ritual invocation of New York Democratic heroes-Al Smith, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, Robert Wagner-won only tepid applause...