Word: ticklishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College dining halls spend their $500,000 food budget and where could it cut down on its expenses? These are the ticklish questions which confront the recently appointed Student Council Committee on Board...
...last, long overdue, Penguin rumbled up to North Star's, Boston dock. There was still one ticklish job left-getting Penguin aboard. Since the monster was too big for its berth, ten feet of its tail had to be amputated with acetylene torches. Then, when the tide lifted the motorship's foredeck level with the dock, the cumbersome creature was rolled aboard on a specially built platform, lashed down...
Continued quiet in the ticklish Forbach salient, overlooking the ghost industrial city of Saarbrücken, led observers to guess that the German onslaught there last month, which for a time had the French defenders entirely cut off from support and supplies (TIME, Nov. 13), was a typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts...
...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...