Word: touchiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman Senator, and nearly every other country has at least one lady Deputy. Do they quietly defer to the menfolk? Certainly not. Colombia's ex-Senator Esmeralda Arboleda de Uribe, who has a TV show called Controversia in Bogotá, grills political leaders on the country's touchiest issues. Costa Rica's Maria de Chittenden, 45, is a great believer in womanly wiles. She is easily the prettiest Ambassador to London's Court of St. James's, and says: "The one rule is that you mustn't criticize what men have done...
Influence & Pressure. The major top ic of the conference was the touchiest issue that now faces Orthodoxy: how to initiate and carry on the theological dialogue with Rome that Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to when they met in Jerusalem last January. Merely putting the subject on the agenda led the Orthodox Church of Greece to boy cott last year's Rhodes meeting, partly because the Greek bishops are fearful of Rome's power and partly because Athens' Metropolitan Chrysostomos is jealous of Athenagoras' growing influence in Orthodoxy. Strong pressure from some progressive metropolitans...
Gavin did differ sharply with the Kennedy Administration on one of the touchiest issues which separate the U.S. and France: President de Gaulle's insistence that France create its own nuclear force apart from NATO. In plainly worded reports home, Gavin argued that De Gaulle is determined to build his atomic force with or without U.S. cooperation, and that the U.S. might as well help on everything short of the warheads themselves. Kennedy presented Gavin's arguments to the National Security Council, then advised him that the U.S. still objected to the whole notion. But White House...
...agreement with the Algerian F.L.N., Debré argued for immediate parliamentary elections. His point: chances for a Gaullist sweep were now at their peak but would progressively decline in the months to come as the nation faced such issues as wages and prices, European political organization, nuclear policy-and touchiest of all-the voting of funds to an independent, Moslem-run Algeria...
...pilot and engineer are busy during every split second of takeoff-watching instruments, managing flaps and other control surfaces, nursing the engines, checking visually for other planes, and watching for birds that might get sucked into a jet intake. Noise abatement rules only add to their burden at the touchiest moments of flight...