Word: tamper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need for an alternative source of power. Another of the Rippe engines, the 911 pumper, was designed to enable water to run in whatever direction it wanted, including uphill. Nearly every piece in the show is supposed to pump either water or air, though why their inventor wanted to tamper with the elements in the first place is left unexplained. The machines' alleged creator, Jim Rippe's mythical great-uncle Jeremiah, was a visionary, not a man of the world. Consequently, his creations are best considered not as merely functional engines, but as mile-stones along his road to salvation...
Would never want to tamper; it flows south...
...amended City Charter makes it clear that the City manager and his staff is to handle municipal affairs and authorize civil servants to do specific jobs. The City councillors, by law, are forbidden to tamper with this process at the risk of a $500 fine or a six month prison sentence. Violators also are forbidden to serve the City in any future capacity, elective or otherwise...
...followers, Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
Each of the administrators qualified their non-recognition with claims that they lacked the authority to tamper with the Kraus plan or to recognize the Union. Wilcox and Ford deferred to Bok, while Bok deferred to the Faculty when questioned by Union members Wednesday night at an open discussion on "Teaching in the University." The two deans and Bok overruled Union demands for more scholarship funds with claims that all income from Harvard's endowment has been spent on University operating costs...