Word: ticklishness
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Historical analogies are a ticklish business, especially when they are proposed while a fine, cruel dust still blankets the desolation of Lower Manhattan. So I will not compare the events of last Tuesday to Pearl Harbor, or to the sinking of the Lusitania, or the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarejevo, or any of the other terrible “turning points” in the long and bloody 20th century...
Which way will Bush lean? The test is fast approaching. In April he is scheduled to decide which new weapons to sell to Taiwan. The sales are ticklish every year, but never more so than now, when a new Administration wants to underscore its distance from China and an independence-minded Taiwan is bidding for the Navy's most advanced antimissile radar system...
Which way will Bush lean? The test is fast approaching. In April he is scheduled to decide which new weapons to sell to Taiwan. The sales are ticklish every year, but never more so than now, when a new Administration wants to underscore its distance from China and an independence-minded Taiwan is bidding for the Navy's most advanced antimissile radar system...
Imagine, for a moment, the raw sensuality of the female foot. Slender and smooth, its gentle curves both entice and arouse. To slide one's fingers across the firm, rounded heel and up into that ticklish valley of ecstasy--perfection! And who can resist the ten most erogenous zones of the female form: the toes, each a powder keg of sexual tension, each begging to be fondled, caressed, sucked and stroked until...
...only that, but the perception of pain is "related to expectation and brain circuits that replicate past experiences." In more immediate terms, the sight of a fist coming toward your face might trigger the pain perception before the fist actually makes contact. Or, alternately, someone might be so ticklish that they don t even need to be touched to cringe. Even if they don t produce pain on their own, these neural patterns can "lower the stimulus intensity so that normally innocuous stimuli produce pain." In this model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger...