Word: tampering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside the difference was immediately noticeable. Admonitory signs were everywhere. "Have you locked your safe?" Guards checked each visitor's name against a calling list, escorted him to & from his appointment, meticulously examined each employee's special tamper-proof pass. There were no exceptions...
...completed action of major appropriation bills, did not yet know how much revenue it would need; tax cuts now might exert new inflationary pressures; future foreign commitments would probably knock all budget plans into a cocked hat. But tax reduction was a political inflammable, and dangerous to tamper with. Truman's veto of the tax bill might singe his political fingers. Asked Manhattan's Daily News: "Will Truman shoot Santa Claus...
...conventional beauty, but her face is founded on beautifully modeled, well-spaced bones. It will be a pity if Hollywood's make-up experts are tempted to tamper with her thick, dark eyebrows and wide, expressive mouth. Her legs are all right as they...
...editor who took over for last week's issue, chubby, 49-year-old Robert L. Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict...
Mating to Order. Dr. Bissonnette found it a cinch to tamper with nature's timetable.* He put all sorts of creatures in quarters with blinds to exclude the daylight and electric lights to simulate it. To make a species mate to order, he had only to control properly the length of the indoor...