Word: ticklishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faculty level, the group is discussing ways of judging the work done by individual tutors. A ticklish problem, this involves careful analysis of each tutor's record...
...better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both piquant and touching. As a grandiose spectacle-with undersea ballets, waterfront fandangos and full-rigged ships crossing the stage -the story becomes both sluggish and slapdash...
...local papers, wire-service notices, etc. . . . finally ... his arrest ... I am a Southerner, and I strongly sympathize with the problems of the South, and I appreciate the difficulties that must be met in the slow and inevitable accomplishment of integration. I only regret that such a large and ticklish undertaking must be complicated by the Northern and Southern minorities of gutless, poor-spirited and fanatical trash, inspired by the opportunists who can see money to be made in every human perplexity...
...whose job it it to please everyone, Heamen is quite successful. In line with this policy, he does not commit himself on whether or not Adams House has the best food and other such ticklish questions. As for the quality of the food, Heamen says only, "We try to supply the best food for the money--$14.00 a week...
Besides using Joe the Baptist to point up such ticklish Christian problems as race relations, Corder draws a lesson from the fact that Joe can do nothing by himself. Says he: "We are all like Joe ... All of us depend on God for all that we do. Without God we cannot amount to much, but if we let God take the controls of our lives and speak through us, then we can amount to something ... I hope that God has talked through me and through...