Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech last night was more than just a bad speech. That it a long, disgusting--often meaningless--string of platitudes, empty words, and obscure philosophical meanderings is hardly worth mentioning. The tepid reaction he received from a hall-full of his most ardent supporters is eloquent testimony to this fact. But what is much more worrisome is what he was thinking last night while he was mouthing such nothings. Not one specific issue or controversy was mentioned in the Senator's speech. It was obvious, however, that his supporters were thinking of specifics when they gave...
...diocese is said to be on the boil," says the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark. "If that is so, I accept it as a compliment. Boiling water is better than tepid. It can cleanse and generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop...
...looks like a nursery-size flying saucer. But poking up where the antenna ought to be is a rubber nipple, and inside is tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
Unfortunately, nobody tells him to shoot the scriptwriter. Instead somebody tells him his wife (Mary Ure), who is about to present him with his fifth child, is a tart. Instantly, a competent piece of popular science dissolves into a tepid mess of sentiment, and after floating in it for an hour or more most customers will be well into the sixth stage of sensory deprivation...
However, Sigmund rightly points out the contradictions in the way the word "socialist" is used by the nationalists. By attaching it to everything from the tepid land reform of Bourguiba in Tunisia to the social revolution of Castro they have turned it into a rather empty epithet...