Word: trickyness
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"It has been a task involving many appallingly tricky decisions. But I hope we have produced a work which will be far more widely read by the younger generation who now regard the Bible, with its archaic phrases, as a stuffy and old-fashioned book."
To make jet flying safer, the airlines last week put in a new set of crew training rules. They came only after a year of arguing with the Federal Aviation Agency. FAA decided that since the transition from slower piston planes to tricky jets is much more demanding on pilots...
Many foreign students argue that the exams are unfair, claim they include subtly worded, semantic-trap questions that would be tricky even for a native-born American. Critics also insist that the A.M.A. purposely makes the exams tough to maintain a monopoly for U.S. doctors -a charge the A.M.A. hotly...
The Atomic Energy Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge...
Combined with the relative lack of fervor for the candidates, this general respect for and approval of the President raises what may be a crucial issue when the voters step into the voting booths next Tuesday. In these dying days of the campaign, Mr. Eisenhower has taken off the kid...