Word: tepidity
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...faithful without receiving a standing ovation. The inauspicious occasion was a recent one-day special conference of the Labor Party; the divisive issue was how Labor should vote in the June 5 referendum on Britain's continued participation in the European Common Market. Unimpressed by Wilson's tepid pro-Market address, the 962 delegates (representing some 6 million members of the labor movement) responded by voting almost 2 to 1 for British withdrawal from...
...best chance of persuading rebellious Republican conservatives to stick with the party. Rocky and Barry would seem to constitute the odd couple of the G.O.P. In 1964 Rockefeller, then New York Governor, was jeered by the conservative-dominated convention. In the campaign, Rockefeller gave only tepid support to the Senator's bid for the presidency. In turn, Goldwater voted against confirming Rockefeller as Vice President...
Finally there are those who, chafing at the bit of tepid local escapes and unrestrained by mundane financial considerations, make the most pronounced effort to realize their mythical oasis by spending the week skiing in St. Moritz or soaking up the sun in the Bahamas. These are the true inheritors of Conrad and Lawrence and Lowry, as they sail away to the Acapulcan heart of darkness, to the primitive rituals of the Monte Carlo gaming tables, to the menacing volcanoes towering over Waikiki Beach. Do they, then, these voyagers inspired by visions of icy glasses of rum-and-coke...
Ford's compromise with Congress on energy allowed him to argue, with considerable justification, that he had provoked the Democrats into coming up with alternatives to his energy program. Even so, the reaction of some G.O.P. leaders in Congress ranged from frigid to tepid. They told Ford that they were cautiously optimistic that the veto would be sustained in the Senate and that they were gaining ground in the House...
Ford went first to a $500-a-plate Republican breakfast, where only 51 tickets had been sold. That night in Cleveland, his tepid audience at a $500-a-plate dinner totaled about 250, half what had been expected. Among the missing was Republican Gubernatorial Candidate James Rhodes, who opposes Ford's proposed surtax...