Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than enforce the crucifix ban. Dominski met with parents at the Mietno school and tried to have them sign pledges that their children would obey school rules; the parents refused. Though local church officials were firmly on their side, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Primate, offered only tepid comfort. Stopping over in Rome after a three-week trip to Argentina and Brazil last week, Glemp said, "Since the end of the war, we have always had problems with the crucifixes. All of that is normal...
That sort of ego massage may have been what Baker had in mind when he issued a tepid "no comment" instead of hotly denying the baseball commission story. In the past, Baker tried hard to squelch rumors that he would run for a Senate seat. However, he did covet William Clark's post as National Security Adviser, and had persuaded Reagan to appoint him as Clark's successor until Presidential Counsellor Ed Meese and other hard-liners sabotaged his bid. His pique and frustration may have made him receptive to job offers. "The fact that Baker...
...unleashed. Maybe there should be. The elite cadres in the armed services who are trained to handle nuclear weapons have been briefed on the destructive power they oversee, and according to some of them, the glimpses of the real thing make The Day After seem tepid...
...late '60s, some of Kennedy's rhetoric sounded incautious, jingoistic and dangerous. The Arthurian knight talked about building bomb shelters. The extravagance of all that the hagiologists claimed for him now seemed to make him a fraud. His performance on civil rights came to seem tepid and reluctant and excessively political. Stories about his vigorous sex life, including an alleged affair with the girlfriend of a Mafia don, brought into question not only his private morals but his common sense. At last, the revisionists wondered whether his presidency belonged more to the history of publicity and hype than...
...film adaptation of the novel. Heller's powerful anti-war statement became widely known and appreciated. In his two act play. We Bombed in New Haven. Heller continues to hammer in his theme almost to the point of cliche. This time, however, the sentiment is not searing, but tepid, and the South House Drama Society's production adds little emotional energy...