Word: ticklishness
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...Boston. When they finally arrived at the correct street, by trial and error, they encountered difficulties in removing the heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher and carrying her down, she added much to their woe, when nearing the hospital, by insisting that they all return immediately to rescue a pan of stewing prunes from her stove...
...over, these reworkings are detected by X-ray, ultraviolet, and infra-red rays in Alan Burrough's Department of X-Ray and are removed and the blank spaces carefully filled in to resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department, on a Fogg picture now exhibited in a second-floor gallery. Purchased in Italy by a collector, the Crespi Madonna was severely damaged when the ship caught fire. The Fogg directors bought the damaged picture...
...career diplomat, the newly elected president had occupied the ticklish Nipponese post since his appointment by President Hoover in 1932. But this assignment was only the climax of a career marked by the handling of unmerous delicate situations, including management of the Berlin Embassy in 1917, and the negotiation of the American-Turko Treaty...
American Medical Association, Surgeon General Thomas Parran stated bald facts about one of the most ticklish topics in medical circles-the question of licensing refugee doctors...
This is a ticklish matter, lynching should not be cloaked by "national unity" but it will not be satisfactorily solved by a "war measure." It should be approached in a more democratic manner, for otherwise it will never receive a lasting solution. Leon A. Danco...