Word: ticklishness
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...difficult and ticklish situation for President Peñaranda. Tin is Bolivia's most important export, and Patino's tin constitutes almost half of the local production. It was also a difficult situation for the United Nations, which need all of Bolivia's tin for war purposes. Financially Bolivia was in a bad way, with prices spiraling despite credits from the U.S. President Peñaranda faced a fundamental problem in human and economic relations which the necessities of war no longer permitted to be postponed...
...ticklish problem of racial discrimination that has been consistently side-stepped during peacetime complacency is now on the fire and is rapidly coming to a boil. The poll tax is on the spot and an even more important question has been raised with the labor unions as a result of the all-out production necessity of hiring more Negroes. In many cases Negroes are not given equal rights in unions that are designed to be the voice of all the workers. Often colored workers are refused membership, a refusal which may later ham-string plants with closed shop agreements...
...dance committees offer to set up as well as clear out the dining hall furniture has been matched by the University, which has agreed to rearrange the eating hours on the day after and so facilitate the setting-up. Together they form a workable solution to a ticklish and unnecessary problem...
...late, great first baseman of the New York Yankees. Some 80,000,000 U.S. baseball fans knew Gehrig or his picture by sight. A year ago, when he died at 38 of a rare, incurable form of paralysis, they virtually canonized him. To biographize him so soon was a ticklish job. Pride of the Yankees does it with taste and distinction...
...servant who has always accepted the facts of war as facts of life is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. In pre-Pearl Harbor days he drove isolationist Congressmen to frenzy with his blunt warnings of imminent danger. Last week he spoke out again, on the much-evaded, politically ticklish question of drafting 18-to-20 year olds...