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...King's letter went on & on in that vein. What it boiled down to in the American language was: "Oliver, we're getting along all right with the Americans, but the situation is ticklish and might come unstuck. Go over there and keep a sharp eye on things, keep in touch with the right people, keep selling the good old Empire-and don't let Bertie McCormick bite...
...began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...tested while still on the drawing boards. Some manufacturers make scale models of their new airplanes and drop them from high altitudes. As they streak down to destruction, telemetering instruments report their performance by radio. After the airplane itself is assembled, the "contractor's" test pilots have the ticklish job of easing it into the air. In the case of high-speed aircraft, this is generally done at Muroc; civilian pilots like the field as much as the Air Force does. Untested aircraft are shipped all the way to Muroc from the Atlantic Coast...
Feeling that he had done his duty, he resigned as Under Secretary in June 1947, to return a year and a half later, at the urging of Harry Truman, to the highest position in the President's Cabinet and the nation's second most ticklish...
Forward the Heart (by Bernard Reines; produced by Theatre Enterprises, Inc. & Leon J. Bronesky) attempts to treat a compound social fracture-always a ticklish business. Playwright Reines's double-problem play first shows a young painter who has been blinded in the War and is bitterly unadjusted. Only when he falls in love with his mother's sympathetic, intelligent young maid does life seem worth living. Then he discovers that the maid is a Negro...