Word: ticklishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution, a display of ineptness rare in recent Soviet diplomacy. ¶By putting too much overt pressure on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Khrushchev last week drove Yugoslavia to a public challenge of Soviet primacy in Eastern Europe (see below). In the process, Khrushchev also ineptly stirred up the ticklish relations between Russia and Poland. Fortnight ago. in deference to the knowledge that the U.S.S.R. could bring Polish industry to a standstill in six weeks by cutting off raw-materials shipments, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka took steps that were bound to increase his unpopularity at home. In response...
Tricky Return. Return to earth will be the most ticklish part of the flight. The pilot will have the help of special flight instruments, and his object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both...
...Ticklish Volume 40 of the new edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, the volume containing the latest box score on Joseph Stalin, was published almost two years behind schedule and in the wake of its 48 companion volumes. Joe's spotty career is now trimmed down to five pages and one picture-a wholesale pruning in comparison with the previous (1947) edition's fat 59 pages and 14 pictures. In the new version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice...
...theater, with its blunt visual effects, is less suited to so ticklish a story than fiction would be, and the authors of Miss Isabel are not suited to it at all. After eying a grim but at least genuine theme-that the mother's pathos may complete the daughter's tragedy-they back quickly away from it to trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears...
...Jacques Heim's fur-lined hems-ticklish, but more practical than fur garters for those who like warmth around the knees...