Word: ticklishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conduct of an interview is, understandably, a ticklish business. After years in which he never smoked or drank, Kinsey deliberately took up tobacco and alcohol in a gingerly fashion, because he thought that if he smoked and drank moderately with people whose sexual histories he was exploring, it would produce a better rapport. The system seems to work. Nobody who has given his case history to Kinsey is likely to forget the experience. His own family has contributed; he took his daughter Joan's sex history when she was in high school, and after she married, her husband offered...
...their annual meeting one day last June, they knew it was to be no ordinary occasion. Usually their problems had been routine, for in all its 95 years, nothing much had ever ruffled the peaceful campus on the Cumberland plateau of Tennessee. But this time, the regents had a ticklish vote to take: Should they abide by the recommendation of the Fourth Province Synod and admit Negroes to the School of Theology? After hours of debate, the regents voted...
...Dallas, on the first of his two days in Texas, Adlai once again tackled the ticklish tidelands-oil issue. "I do not believe it is wise national policy to give such an asset to an individual state," he told his Dallas audience-then added that he did favor a compromise "which is mindful of the respective interests of the states and the Federal Government." "Governor Shivers," continued Stevenson, "once agreed wholeheartedly with my position . . . But, evidently, the governor has concluded that it is time for a change -of mind...
...eight paid no income taxes on the amounts. Those who paid: O'Donne.l and McGowan. Lawyer Mc-Gowan said this week that his payment was not to be regarded "as a legal opinion" that the others owed a tax on their gifts. The point is a ticklish one, since Stevenson first explained the payments as additional compensation for services to the state. If the money is for services, it is taxable; if it is a gift, it is not taxable...
...truth to be funny. Brigadier General "Bull" Boatner, Koje Island's tough new boss, seemed to be gaining in his battle with the prisoners-slowly, and not without bloodshed. Boatner's big test would come when the new 500-man enclosures were completed, and the ticklish job was started of transferring the prisoners from the big compounds-probably this week or next...