Word: ticklishly
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Then he saw the startled look on the legislators' faces. "I'm getting on ticklish ground," he laughed. "I'm for everybody. I want to help the farmers, the teachers...
Trip advisors, knowing well the royal ardor on official jaunts, insisted on rest periods at Banff, Victoria and Jasper Park. Their Majesties will deftly escape ticklish social problems by living on their train most of the way, by holding no royal courts. They may, however, hold a garden party in Ottawa-the next best thing...
...assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition. "Who's that in my room?" growled Corrigan like all three bears. American Airlines Pressagent Carl Anderson...
...John L. Lewis' hands then lay the ticklish problem of whether to risk shaky U.A.W.'s equilibrium further by encouraging a convention that might either affirm or break Homer Martin's authority, or blast U.A.W. permanently...
...Designed to lessen landing hazards by allowing the plane to "fly right into the field" instead of settling in the ticklish "three-point" fashion of standard jobs...