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...after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...
...usual dinner. This time Joseph Grew made a speech which was not only unusual: it was virtually unprecedented in ambassadorial usage. The Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...
...persons realize how greatly the cash-and-carry provisions of the Neutrality Act improve our position in comparison with the ticklish days of 1914-17. No longer will every sitting of a German prize court rouse the American people to a state of frenzy, for our ships will be kept out of dangerous seas. The "cash" ruling will enable the government to escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation...
...perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always jotted down notes and sketched diagrams for hospital records. One day in 1926, while preparing for a ticklish brain operation, he got word that his son had died. He telephoned the news to his wife, returned to his patient, performed the operation successfully...
...Frederick Norbert Wagner this was no novel assignment. Maharajas are his dish. Man and boy he had circled the globe 17 times with them, never flubbed a ticklish problem (even when His Highness the Nawab of Rampur toted his own kitchen and cooks, or the late Gaekwar of Baroda handed him keys for 468 pieces of luggage, weighing 17 tons...