Word: ticklishness
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...Filipinos who fought the Jap through Bataan and on Corregidor, and who now suffer the full measure of Jap co-prosperity, Manuel Quezon is an undying symbol of Philippine independence. Both Manuel Quezon and goodman Osmeña were mum last week. In the end, the ticklish question of the Presidential tenure will almost certainly be settled by the White House...
...method involves the ticklish business of getting a needle into the caudal canal through a puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...
...Coffin became Union's president. The onetime Presbyterian seminary (it became interdenominational 51 years ago) appealed to him as a place "to turn out men of adventurous spirit, unfettered by tradition." No one was surprised that he administered a ticklish job with complete fair-mindedness. He took both radical students and faculty members, notably Methodism's Harry F. Ward, in his stride, refused to oust Ward. Said...
...supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some 55,000 Jews are to be moved to Palestine. Homes may be found for other refugees in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, perhaps the U.S. and South America. Ahead lie months of ticklish negotiations. But at least the conference had mapped action, however limited...
...started as deputy consul in Shanghai, moved around among the consulates in Tientsin, Amoy, Tsinan and Peiping. Back as Consul General in Shanghai in the ticklish years preceding the Sino-Japanese war, he made a quiet reputation for himself by getting small things done unobtrusively and well. As a longtime resident of China, he became virtually the head of Shanghai's International Settlement...