Word: ticklishness
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...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...
...most ticklish task was to disarm his own partisans. Some 10,000 of them still had rifles, machine guns and ammunition, supplied during the fighting. Their guns kept La Razón, a tin-interest daily newspaper hated by M.N.R., from publishing. Paz refused to send guards to the plant. Above all, he did not want any more shooting...
Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians...