Word: touchiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaperman, the touchiest of all charges is bias, since he labors constantly to scrub his story free of it. He must be doing well at this, for people who think newspapers are unfair to labor, business, consumerists or environmentalists amount to less than 15% in each category. That statistic speaks better for impersonal journalism than its critics give it credit...
...resume the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt, how to deal with what promised to be a redoubled threat against them from the Palestinian guerrillas, whether to reconsider their stand against yielding any of the occupied West Bank, and how to improve their testy relations with Washington. Probably the touchiest question of all was whether these decisions should continue to be entrusted to the nine-month-old Begin government...
...touchiest problems inherited by the Carter Administration was the case of former CIA Director Richard M. Helms. It brought into play questions of national security, loyalty, perjury and, in some ways, the future of the intelligence agency and its directors. Last week the case was settled in a manner that did not completely satisfy anybody but seemed a thoroughly reasonable compromise...
...earliest days of the church, of course. Christians were accepted as being Jews, and the Messianic Jews say they are trying to re-establish those bygone days. Ever since the two faiths divided, however, proselytism has been one of their touchiest disputes, exacerbated by Christian anti-Semitism and centuries of forced conversions. Most Jews fiercely resent all proselytizing, and many Christian denominations now oppose organized efforts to convert Jews...
...doughty Norwegians also have become embroiled in a series of diplomatic and territorial disputes with their giant neighbor. The touchiest is the issue of how to establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...