Word: touchiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic point was the week's touchiest. Acheson bluntly said that, to the best of his knowledge, East Germany was a deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet...
...developed a grudging respect for him. When he led his formation through the flak, "ordered a 360° turn, made the run all over again, bombed the target with great success, and lost one-third of his crews," he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Willie Turk, toughest and touchiest of the pilots, talked out of turn, Harris knocked him out with one punch...
...Gets Out? The touchiest point in U.S.-Russian relations was the Far East-and well the Russians knew it. Because they did not want a showdown with the U.S., the Russians had behaved with relative restraint in the delicate negotiations between the Chinese National Government and the Chinese Communist Party. Now they vastly complicated those negotiations by postponing the Red Army's withdrawal from Manchuria and by asking for further concessions in the richest industrial area of the Far Eastern mainland. Not only had they failed to withdraw on Feb. 1, as they had promised, but there were reports...
After V-J day, one of the biggest, hardest, touchiest jobs in the U.S. will be boss of the Veterans Administration. What V.A. does, and how it does it, will directly concern one out of every three U.S. families...
...orchestra waiting for them. White-collar workers fill a third of the chairs, but are by no means the top instrumentalists. A former Metropolitan Opera French horn player operates a lathe; the concertmaster (once a hot fiddler for Kate Smith) runs a milling machine. One of the touchiest problems faced by the coldly democratic organization was a none-too-musical Sperry executive who insisted on playing second violin...