Word: ticklishness
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...Prove Fair Weather, her latest, has anguished her for five years. It is the story of a seduction that never quite comes off. The principals: James Nathaniel Wishart, a cautious redhead who has been married for 20 years without finding out he is ticklish; Emmy Cruger, a divorced, slim-waisted, no longer youthful college teacher whose knees are ordinary but whose discernment is not. Businessman Wishart wants a return ticket to Cytherea. Emmy offers him the ticket but refuses to guarantee more than a one-way trip. Her attitude: "We have only one life to live, if that." So Wishart...
...rafts of politicians, Prince Konoye simply told the Army and Navy what he stood for and directed them to submit the names of candidates for their ministries. When they did, he summoned three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral Eiki Tojo, took the War Ministry; and the third, Yonai's Navy Minister Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, agreed to stay in office...
...third boat before Easter vacation, Bus Curwen has finally wrested the stroke position from Harry Fowler. Dave Challinor, Jerry Prince, and Dave Glass in seven, six, and five seem pretty certain of their positions at present, but the seating in the bow four presents a ticklish problem...
...scene just in time to scotch an Anglo-Italian cannons-and-airplane-engines-for-coal deal. Now, having maintained that a neutral that submits to British control is no longer a neutral and is fair game for Nazi submarines and bombers, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop realized that a ticklish situation was bound to arise if the Axis partner were compelled to knuckle down to British seapower. As though to lend emphasis to this attitude, a German warplane bombed and set fire to an Italian collier transporting British coal to Italy...
Since World War II began the former Kaiser's position has been ticklish. He is a good German, gets his income from Germany and has four sons and eleven grandsons in the German Army. But an Allied victory might restore monarchy to what the peace treaty left of Germany. A monarchist coup in Germany and a subsequent deal with the Allies certainly would. Gossip in The Hague has it that Princess Hermine's estate in Silesia is the centre of a monarchist movement...