Word: tepidity
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...importance, the campaign has been strangely tame so far, with both men drawing sparse crowds and tepid applause. When Shamir arrived at a Tel Aviv suburb for a rally, he discovered that local party officials had failed to spread the word. The Prime Minister kept a fixed smile, but later he snapped at the organizers, "You should have told me!" Shamir had better luck at a branch of Bank Leumi in Givatayim, where several dozen customers clustered around him. "Tell your clientele," he said to the bank's manager, "that they should not worry about their savings. We will secure...
...focus in the 45-month-old war between Iran and Iraq shifted last week from the tepid waters of the Persian Gulf, where the two sides have attacked about a dozen oil tankers since the end of March, to the sweltering marshlands along the southern border between the two belligerents. According to Iraqi estimates, Iran had as many as half a million men poised to launch a new ground offensive at any time. The Iranians have also brought Hawk missiles, armor and artillery into the area. Despite recurring reports of disagreement in Tehran about the wisdom of launching yet another...
...images of cheese and bread, foie gras and caviar, chocolate and wine-the usual subjects of such comparative evaluations. But at a 90-minute tasting conducted by Dr. Linda M. Bartoshuk in her laboratory at the Yale-affiliated John B. Pierce Foundation, the only samples I was offered were tepid, clear chemical solutions. They were washed over my tongue or used as a mouth rinse as I leaned over a sink or a funnel hooked up to a waste pail...
...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...
...then, does the majority not have the right to establish, through its Government, a religious character for the country? In most cases no harm is intended. Read the tepid nonsectarian prayer that led to the 1962 decision, and you wonder what all the breast beating was about: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Similarly, how could plaster-of-paris figures in Pawtucket, R.I., have alarmed anybody but the A.C.L.U., which brought the suit...