Word: ticklishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hagerty, went to the isthmus last week to confer with President Ricardo Arias and help set up press and cable arrangements. On White House instructions he also discreetly learned "Dickie" Arias' golf handicap (an impressive two) without revealing Ike's. For his part, President Arias solved the ticklish problem of the presidential suite. He reportedly decided that he himself will occupy it as his conference headquarters...
...Princeton debacle puts the varsity in a ticklish position. In order to stay in any kind of contention for the EIBL, they must win today's game and then go on to beat such teams as Dartmouth and Yale...
...Middle East, as in Southeast Asia, the U.S. hopes somehow to back its friends without at the same time driving the enemies of these friends into Khrushchev's hug. It is ticklish going. So far the U.S., which more or less thought up the Baghdad Pact, has refrained from joining it for fear of antagonizing Egypt's Nasser, who considers the pact a trick to split the Arab world away from him. Last week, without quite signing the pact, the U.S. found a diplomatic way of showing its solidarity with those Moslem lands which are ready to join...
...eleven months, 156 men working with massive earth-moving machines have been removing the stone face of Contractor's Hill, where the Panama Canal cuts through the Continental Divide (TIME, May 10, 1954). It has been ticklish work; the very reason for blasting away the hillside was that it threatened to slide into and block the canal-carrying with it the nervy men who were destroying it. Last week the danger ended. With 3,000,000 cubic yards of rock removed, engineers believed that the remaining potential slide-rock was too light to break loose. They will...
...first blue slips (academic warnings) go out. For a student who has always been accustomed to getting As, the almost inevitable Cs can seem a crushing failure. They are also pretty hard on the proud parents, and it is one of Dean of Freshmen Foster Strong's most ticklish tasks to reassure the older generation that a C at Caltech is the equivalent of an A or a B almost anywhere else. In spite of all the cushioning, however, some students fall by the wayside; by graduation only about two out of three have survived...