Word: ticklishly
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...Grand Central Station, a 40,000-sq.-ft. turquoise and gold-leaf image of the heavens (a romping Pegasus, twinkling Mazda stars, eight signs of the Zodiac) gleamed as bright as new. The big arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye. The redecoration was finished, without mishap, by 30 workmen standing on the largest...
Though it is easily the season's craziest show, and probably the funniest, Murder, He Says lacks much of the ticklish wit and lightness of Arsenic & Old Lace; it lays most of its laughs on with a shovel. But by & large it is a rare old romp, played in specially fine style by Messrs. MacMurray, Hall and Whitney and by the incredibly ferocious Marjorie Main...
...picking them the Army will embark on a ticklish and complex business. About half will come from the European Theater, a third from the Pacific. Most of the others-luckiest of all-are already in the U.S., home on rotation...
...Another ticklish problem was the San Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...
Radio announcers, oftener abused than praised for their, pronunciations of ticklish words, got a gentle pat on the back this week from Dr. James F. Bender, speech consultant for the National Institute for Human Relations. Writing in the New York Times magazine, he pronounced them "pretty good on the whole," invited readers to try their own tongues on a test compiled from the NBC Handbook of Pronunciation...