Word: tampere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed to mean that the falling government, fearful of appearing either to embrace or offend the incoming Premier, found De Gaulle too hot to censor...
...what the movies, according to the code, cannot do. NBC censors did pressure Wyler to "change a few 'hells' and 'My Gods'." The line, "A woman he had relations with," became "A woman with whom he had a relation." But Wyler refused to tamper with key bits, viz., "He tried to rape me so I shot him." Snorted he: "What are you going to say-'He tried to make love to me so I killed him'? Big laugh...
...keep the actress from talking to his wife, he kills her-which doesn't help his good name any, when he is found out. The Vise describes this resolution as "the inexorable qualities of fate as it closes in on men and women when they attempt to tamper with destiny...
...movement and immigration have increased, we still take pride in the fact that a man can say civis Britannicus sum whatever his color may be, and we take pride in the fact that he wants and can come to the mother country . . . That is not something we wish to tamper with lightly." That said, Hopkinson admitted the government is indeed considering some form of limitation...
...idea that it is either underarmed or stripped down. Because of new rockets, each of which packs the killing power of half a dozen World War II machine guns, the designers have been able to save weight on heavy gun mounts, guns and ammunition. But Lockheed has refused to tamper either with safety gadgets or instruments, has left them all in. Says Clarence L. Johnson, chief engineer at Lockheed's California Division: "This is still a highly complex airplane. You simply don't fly around at 40,000 feet at those kinds of speeds just by throwing...