Word: ticklishness
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...Fairchild's nose. After alighting on the water the co-pilot will go forward into the nose, flip open a hatch, lower the motor and small propeller into the water. That will be used to maneuver the ship through surface traffic to its mooring, ordinarily a ticklish job. While Pan American refused to say where it planned to use the amphibion, the ship appeared to be neatly suited to the company's routes in China...
...suppose this criticism was answered in a similar vein. One might say here is a mayor caught in a ticklish, political situation. He knows that, in addition to the ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered...
...walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...Communist Party is a little group of 3,200.000 from all Russia's 164,000,000. Last week the bee smartly stung the bear, with the most ambitious Government decree in history. It divided all Russia into three Zones. Zone No. 1 includes all Russia's ticklish spots: the big cities, big industrial centres, a 62-mi. strip along the western border and the chief cities along the eastern border. In these, the hide and the vital organs of Russia, only certified loyalists may live. "Undesirable'' Russians must move out. They may be allowed to settle...
Villain of the piece is that somewhat shopworn old devil, the Victorian Age. Monica, only daughter of anxious parents whose every nerve was strained to do the socially right thing, was in a ticklish position from the very start. By her mother, her friends, her teachers it was dinned into her marrow that the one aim in life of every nice girl was to have & hold a Husband. Potential husbands were scarce, aware of their own value, easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct...