Word: ticklishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely enough to fill the annual quota of 750,000. Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked the Congress, since I have been President, for a universal training program for the young men of the United States...
Union Station (Paramount) stages a police hunt for kidnapers through Los Angeles' railroad terminal, elevated trains, stockyards and municipal tunnel. After methodically nabbing three members of the gang, the cops (William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald) undertake the ticklish job of smoking out its leader (Lyle Bettger) before he can do away with his hostage, a blind teen-age girl (Allene Roberts...
Since the start of the Korean war, the stock market has become trigger-sensitive to news from Washington. Last week the market was so ticklish that it reacted to news before traders knew what the news was. In the two days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after...
...Tuesday conferences with his three assistant superintendents, he was a casual but cautious chairman. "Let me ponder that for a while, fellows," he would say when a ticklish problem came up. Often, chin in hand, he would seem to be thinking out loud ("Now, I'm just supposing that . . ."). Then, when he had weighed all the facts, he would make his decision...
...reporters with easy informality-joking about their having had to be fingerprinted, or chortling with glee ("You stepped right into it") when a reporter asked if a large pile of papers, which turned out to be pardons, was for the press. But when the reporters began to dig into ticklish subjects, F.D.R. could be chilly, huffy or schoolmasterish. Once he told them: "Now mind you, it is not important for the people to know whether my left eyebrow is raised or whether my tone of voice is angry-you better cut that out." But from his continued gibes...