Word: ticklishness
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...question was asked urgently again and again. Hopes that he might got a ticklish boost from reports that one of the Governor's toes had wiggled in an involuntary reflex reaction when his son George touched it. Doctors said it was nothing to get excited about. They did not mention another hopeful rumor. The way the story went, Wallace had unexpectedly moaned when a nurse stuck a hypodermic needle in his buttock. Excitedly she told doctors that the semiparalyzed patient had sensation below his waist. Doctors attached little significance to such reflex-like responses, and image-conscious Wallaceites chose...
PATRICIA R. HARRIS. A successful black attorney from Washington, D.C., she heads the Credentials Committee, a ticklish assignment in view of the 1,000-odd challenges mounted. Mrs. Harris, 48, was initially opposed by party reformers who contended that she was too close to the old guard (she was L.B.J.'s Ambassador to Luxembourg). Georgia's Julian Bond called her appointment a "cynical trick"; he thinks that O'Brien figured "politicians like myself will be reluctant to oppose Mrs. Harris because she is a woman, because we don't want to be called chauvinist pigs, because...
Poor Russell's Almanac, Baker's fifth collection of columns and comment, is composed largely of such ticklish visions. The more painful versions often have to do with a variety of middie-aged, middle-management saps who have congealed in mid-marriage and mid-mortgage. "Misery no longer loves company," says Baker. "Nowadays it insists upon...
Consequently Laird is faced with the ticklish problem of being different without being disloyal. Any future political ambitions depend upon the good graces of party regulars who, like their leader, place a premium on loyalty. Laird clearly does not wish to offend Nixon...
Moreover, the question of American investment is so ticklish that it is simply not politically feasible to launch a full-scale American aid program...