Word: ticklishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived back in Great Britain from her Caribbean tour last week, palace press officials breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone agreed that her trip was a great success, and her press relations were marred by only one unfortunate incident.* To the royal press secretaries, any such tour is a ticklish matter. At home the rules for press coverage are clearly drawn, i.e., the only official news on the royal family is handed out in daily court releases. But when royalty goes ajunketing, an entirely different set of rules applies. When the Queen Mother came to the U.S. last year...
...becoming an island in a sea of slums, and the whole area was plagued by one robbery and mugging after another. The university was also running in the red: except for a couple of years during World War II, it had not balanced its budget since 1938. Most ticklish problem of all was the fact that Hutchins' famed B.A. degree, given whenever a student, with or without a high-school diploma, could pass the necessary general-education requirements, had not been entirely successful. Other universities Were suspicious of it, and so were the secondary schools. As a result, undergraduate...
...gently sends him back to Vinca. In a haystack, the boy and girl fumble at love and, as the summer wanes and they prepare to return to Paris, realize that they have sadly closed the door on childhood. Director Claude Autant-Lara, who covered somewhat the same ticklish territory in Devil in the Flesh (TIME, March 21, 1949), this time has produced not so much a pathetic portrait of adolescence as a melancholy valentine to the memory of those troubling years...
...ticklish question of invitations was saved until almost the end. Burma's Premier U Nu suggested that Israel be included, but Pakistan's Mohammed AH objected on behalf of the Moslem states, and Israel was excluded. The white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers...
...Faced with hundreds more applicants than they have room for while still forced to take all qualified comers, California's ten state colleges tackled a ticklish question: Would it be undemocratic to limit enrollments by upping entrance requirements? Last week the state board of education said go ahead. For the present, the colleges need take in only A and B high-school students...