Word: ticklishly
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Things settled down but there were still plenty of chores to be done, and a lot of wires to be pulled. George managed the ticklish task of easing Secretary of State Ed Stettinius out to make room for Jimmy Byrnes. There was muttering around Washington over George's unofficial status...
...Russian and Turkish soldiers who man their common frontier have evolved even in this ticklish period a code of ethics. As they march along either side of the river, the Russian soldiers turn their backs when the Turkish soldiers pass, and the Turks do the same when the Russians pass. Some of the more boisterous Turks yell across to the Russians. But the Russians stolidly, silently continue their...
...safety: many airports are "deficient in length of runways, clearness of approaches and other features important to efficiency and safety." Landing at any airport in bad weather is a long, ticklish job. It necessitates a dangerous "stacking" in the air of all incoming traffic (see chart). Planes must fly a tight, narrowly prescribed course on instruments until, directed by ground radio to land, sometimes hours later. A plane last spring had to circle Washington airport for 5 hours...
...American in China who has most eased General George Marshall's ticklish mission with sound advice is a spare, aging missionary named John Leighton Stuart. In his 70 years, lively, thoughtful Dr. Stuart, one of the oldest and wisest of Old China Hands, has learned more about China, its mind, habits, languages, rulers and governments than most Chinese...
...Security Council was trying hard, but it was getting nowhere at all on the two ticklish cases before it-Iran and Spain. Both cases turned on the extent to which the Council could act on the "internal affairs" of nations. The Russians thought the Council could go as far as it liked on Spain; the U.S. and Britain thought not. The Western powers thought the Council ought to know what was going on in Iran; Moscow couldn...