Word: lukewarmly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of Americans support his criticism of Soviet human rights violations, approve of his informal style and think that he can be trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics and small businessmen. Carter could pick up still more support after NBC broadcasts on April 14 a tape of one of his days in the White House...
Even after dealing with the lack of courses, teachers, student interest and the differences in tactics, there is still the administration to face. Although, as Orgel says, "No one is willing to say they're against women's studies," their attitude towards an organized concentration is at best lukewarm. Alberta Arthurs, acting dean of freshmen, says, "A separate women's studies departments seems to be less useful and significant in the long run than courses within various existing departments and concentrations through the usual channels of special majors...
...musician turns out to be John Klemmer, the album's called Barefoot Ballet and the devotee's cradling a bottle of lukewarm wine and curled up on a red plastic sit-sack. You've never seen any of them before but the music brightens the small hours...
Among the delegates who actually saw Carter close up in New York last week, most skeptics seemed ready to be converted. Still, significant numbers of Democrats are lukewarm about him and cannot be taken for granted. Several of Carter's key primary victories were achieved with about one-third of the vote, and many of the others were against weak opposition. In a sense, Carter won by a decision, not a knockout, after staggering through the final rounds...
...trenchant and almost bellicose pamphlet reviewing the history of America in the British Empire. Some say, however, that Jefferson was only named to the committee as part of a compromise, after John Adams had nearly choked on the idea of working with Virginia's Benjamin Harrison, who was comparatively lukewarm to independence...