Word: lukewarmly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became friends and occasional golfing companions. But when President-elect Kennedy asked to come to Dillon's house (Dillon thought it should be the other way around) and came through several days later with an offer, Dillon, as a good Republican, had plenty of doubts. He got only lukewarm encouragement from Nixon. Ike also was cool, but told him: "You can hardly refuse if the President of the United States says he needs you and you can serve conscientiously." Aft er a week of soul searching, Dillon took the post...
Raposo and Segal originally pooled forces in 1958 when they collaborated on the Hasty Pudding Show, The Big Fizz. Last year they wrote Voulez-Vous, a financial failure which both authors attribute at least in part to the CRIMSON's lukewarm review...
...lavish White House dinner for Bourguiba, Kennedy delivered a toast that likened the evening's guest to George Washington. In reply, Bourguiba raised a glass of lukewarm orange juice to say that he was flattered by the comparison, then added that his real hero was Abraham Lincoln, because, like him, "I found my country deeply divided, and for 25 years I have struggled to achieve the unification of my people...
...Lukewarm Linguistics. Mme. Vienot, the proprietress of the chateau, belongs to an aristocratic clan that has seen richer days, though the Rhodeses do not immediately know that. Their room is pleasant, though not quite as advertised-there is no hot water, and when Barbara complains, a maid appears at odd hours with lukewarm basins. The Rhodeses find the countryside charming, but the people seem unaccountably chilly. Mme. Vienot is brisk, cheerless and not above padding a bill. Her aged mother sits through most of dinner in a glazed reverie. A millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating...
...reason for the poor Socialist showing seemed to be that old-line left-wing activists were at best lukewarm about the new "bourgeois" look that Brandt has given his party, while Brandt has not won over the middle-class and younger voters he hoped to convert...