Word: ticklishness
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...population) lived in virtual serfdom. But he knew that too-drastic reforms might provoke conservatives to open reaction. Last week the Assembly was still trying to agree on a constitution. But most Ecuadorians wished that it, too, would quietly go home, and leave to President Velasco the ticklish job of cleaning up Ecuador's economic system...
...Donald, too, who became the intermediary for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Government when the Old Marshal's son, Chang, kidnapped the Generalissimo in 1936. As usual, he was just the man for the ticklish...
...have placed me in a ticklish position and I call upon you to extricate this bewildered G.I. In reading your article (TIME, Aug. 21 ) relating to the New Guinea campaign, I was very impressed by the figures given of losses for combined Australian and U.S. forces. The amounts stated are 662 dead, 63 missing. Later, in a bull session with the boys, I trot out these said totals expecting complete surprise and amazement. The surprise was effected all right, to the extent that they doubted the figures enough to wager $25 that you are wrong. I took...
Temporary Trade. To a large extent this new schedule of Lend-Lease after V-E day removed a ticklish problem that had worried the British industrialists. Under the terms of Lend-Lease, British manufacturers were barred from using Lend-Lease raw materials in the manufacture of goods for commercial exports. As Lend-Lease tapers off, British industries will be free to purchase the raw materials needed to produce finished goods for their foreign customers. Example: iron & steel will probably be removed from the list of Lend-Lease shipments after Jan. 1, 1945, and put on the list of items British...
...third member and probable chairman of the board, which will have the big. ticklish job of disposing of some $75 billion in surplus materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...