Word: tamperers
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...military supervisors, told of his feelings: "Thirty seconds after the explosion came, first, the air blast pressing hard against the people, followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like...
...last the University has released Le Corbusier's dramatic plans for the Visual Arts Center. It has released them virtually intact, and in this the community has been fortunate, for it was not always clear that a desire to save money would not seriously tamper with them. Indeed, the Corporation originally withheld approval of the building designs because its members found contractors' estimates unexpectedly high. For a short but nervous period, they were confronted with a choice among footing the bill, searching for lower estimates, and altering the architect's plans...
...crowd soon was rent with heated arguments, which broke out into sporadic fist fights. Police arrived by about 10:30 p.m. to put a tamper on the restlessness...
...article "The Glass Womb" [which described the fertilization of a human egg on glass slides] made me wince at the way some men can tamper with the laws of nature and morality as they please, and appear justified in doing so. I think there is a point that Dr. Petrucci has failed to realize: if Dr. Petrucci is actually growing human life, he will be committing murder each time he kills one of the specimens...
...would seem that a government for and by the people would move first to discourage joyriding abroad and tamper last with the morale of its lifeline...