Word: touchier
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...Maybe touchier," said the Junior Partner. "You're dealing with copyright law here...
...kind of person who reacts to issues in a "gut fashion." When Bok is even the least bit hesitant about an issue, he assiduously avoids an answer--like his wife, an expert in medical ethics who once refused comment on the Karen Quinlan case. Bok will talk about touchier issues--such as Black students' frustration--but only if he can do so off the record. Some say Bok is unnecessarily wedded to a script, that he has trouble thinking on his feet. "He prepares his case like a lawyer," and gathers everything he can find to support his position...
...Women. The Very Young. The Very Old. Homosexuals. Suburbanites. People from Philadelphia. Who does not qualify? Never have Americans been so willfully aware of belonging to one minority or another, never have they been so defensive and so belligerent about it. Not a day passes but new and ever touchier minorities surface...
...bedridden Senator John Kennedy to turn a couple of his historical essays into a book, Profiles in Courage. He later edited Bobby Kennedy's account of his experiences with the McClellan crime committee investigations, The Enemy Within. But after the President's death, the family got touchier. When Thomas submitted Paul Fay's The Pleasure of His Company for their scrutiny, they demanded all sorts of changes. "Jackie was really the editor," recalls Thomas...
...weeks relations between Iceland's 170,000 citizens and the U.S. garrison at the great NATO base at Keflavik Airport had been growing steadily touchier. On the Fourth of July a group of U.S. airmen went on a drinking spree at Thingvellir, a pastoral spot sacred to all Icelanders as the first meeting place (in A.D. 930) of the Althing, the oldest continuous Parliament in the world. Last month a U.S. officer's wife was arrested on the suspicion of drunken driving. She phoned the airbase and almost immediately the Icelandic police were surrounded by U.S. troops...