Word: lukewarmly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yanks then jumped all over starter Reggie Clevaland (Munson, Roy White, Mickey Rivers, and Chris Chambliss jumped the hardest) and streaked to a 4-1 lead, while the Boston bats-lukewarm at best in the first two tilts of the weekend--were no better than popsicle sticks for the first eight innings, as Yankee hurler Don Gullett cooled any Sox offense...
...example of the empathy of his mentor. Having gone to work for the State Department in 1960, Thomson recalls he soon received "several nibbles" from Harvard and Yale to join the faculties there. But when he consulted Fairbank about the offers, Thomson says his teacher's reaction was only lukewarm. Thomson took this hesitancy as a cue: Fairbank felt his student should first complete his stint in government. But when Harvard's History Department approached Thomson again in 1966, Fairbank was there with open arms. "He felt it was time," Thomson says...
...pattern potentially ominous for the Administration emerged. Nearly all the constituents who praised the program spoke in generalities; nearly all those who mentioned specific parts of the plan denounced them-above all, the proposal to enact stand-by taxes on gasoline. It is just that combination of generalized, but lukewarm, support and fierce opposition to specifics that could knock out important chunks of the program, leaving it shapeless. Those folks the Administration sends out to chat on TV may have a tough job ahead...
...winter-well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn; but sweaters are popular indoor wear and showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths will do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone...
While the inconvenience to upperclassmen is counterbalanced by the advantages to freshmen, the workers appear to gain no such countervailing advantage except a lukewarm guarantee from Dean Fox that no jobs will be lost. Union uproar was a significant if not crucial factor in defeating the proposal last year. The Crimson is disappointed at the lack of a similar response this year, but hopes that this unexpected silence is simply the result of the union being taken by surprise by another of Dean Fox's sneak attacks...