Word: tepidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aliens didn't swoop down on Clarke's Sri Lanka home, so instead of Overmind the reader gets The View from Serendip, a hodgepodge of autobiographical trivia, tepid sea stories and futuristic speculation. The essays on space and technology go several light-years towards redeeming Serendip, but they don't go far enough...
Turgenev began his career as a narrative poet. He was later to describe his verse as "dirty tepid water." But it served to attract influential critics, and propelled him to local prominence. Like many in his privileged caste, Ivan furthered his education in Western Europe. On the Continent, the perpetual bachelor commenced the affair that was to last a lifetime. Heinrich Heine provides the best description of Prima Donna Pauline Viardot: "Her ugliness is of a kind that is noble and, if I might almost say beautiful, such as sometimes enchanted and inspired the great lion-painter Delacroix...
...symptom of frostbite is a tingling sensation in the extremities. The skin turns slightly red at first and then becomes pale grayish-yellow and numb. Pain subsides and sometimes blisters begin to appear. At the first signs, the victim should be brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following page...
...economists agree almost unanimously that even this tepid performance will not be achieved unless the new Administration pumps more money into the sagging economy. Walter Heller, one of three members of the Board of Economists who have attended long meetings with Carter since the election−the others are Arthur Okun and Joseph Pechman− predicts a 4.5% rise in real gross national product next year, but only with sizable stimulation of the economy by Washington. Without it, he says, the increase might be as little as 3.5%. Republican Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis has come around...
...dolls: he turned their chatter into brassy poetry. Higgins' next two thrillers dipped into the same shady world as his first-that cramped anteroom just off the criminal stage where bit-players practice their monologues. After a talky Washington novel (A City on the Hill) and a tepid retelling of the Watergate investigation (The Friends of Richard Nixon), Higgins has returned to the beat where he evidently belongs...