Word: tepidity
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...English, that are all the rage with Zanzibar's native girls, who now wear various amorous slogans written on their bright robes. By the time she drove observantly around the island, the most suggestive such bids to pitch woo seen by the princess had cooled to a tepid "Kiss Me Quick...
Such are the confusions and complications surrounding Kefauver that reporters hesitate to say how the man is doing, even though on the surface he appears to be something of a bust. Much of the time, crowds have been small, tepid, granite-faced; there has been a notable scarcity of bands and banners and other normal accouterments of major campaigns. Said one veteran Washington reporter: "Estes and the people get along so well because they demand so little of each other." But among the people there is a good-natured feeling of kinship...
...Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time...
...editorial page, which is presided over by the Chairman of the News, a greater expenditure of energy has, unfortunately, produced almost as tepid results. The Great Tradition of News editorials has been to arouse controversy that will lead to fruitful exchange of opinion between the Chairman and student letter writers. The story is often told of the professor who strode angrily into class one day while archconservative William F. Buckley was News chairman...
...long suspense was terrific. As Hurricane Ione whirled across the tepid ocean between Puerto Rico and the Carolinas, she was billed as "a very dangerous hurriane" with a bright blue central eye surrounded by dreadful winds...