Word: tampering
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...smooth combination without sacrificing power. Two of the strongest oarsmen, Jim Slocum and Ted Anderson, are currently rowing in the J.V. shell because of form difficulties. Bolles will definitely attempt to restore Slocum, a regular all last year, to the first boat. Otherwise he doesn't plan to tamper much with the boatings that worked so well in the Cornell race...
Sober-thinking Indians disliked Bombay's yellow journals as much as Nehru, but thought it was dangerous to tamper with the principle of a free press, even if only scandal sheets were at stake. Nehru answered with typical Socialist sophistry: "How much freedom of the press have we got today? . . . Practically the entire press in this country is controlled by three or four individuals or groups, or their chains...
...each parent the state's attorney put only one question: "Will you now agree to a transfusion?" Both refused. Darrell Labrenz' position, as he had explained it to Bundesen: "The sanctity of the blood is a thing we cannot tamper with. Everybody knows that blood is the life force and we do not have control of life. Only Jehovah has that. Transfusion, which is a form of drinking or eating blood, is forbidden to us who are Jehovah's Witnesses...
Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan blustered at a Labor meeting early this month: "I will never be a member of a government which makes charges on the National Health Service for the patient." The words were aimed at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, who proposed to tamper with Bevan's onetime baby-the free dentures, spectacles and other medical services which last year cost the Treasury a whopping $1.1 billion...
...Tamper? Uncle Joe did not see himself as grit. He thought others, e.g., fellow Republicans T.R., "Old Bob" La Follette and George Norris, were deadly wrong when they roared against the trusts and the tariffs. America is a hell of a success, Uncle Joe insisted, and why tamper with it? With the single-minded devotion of the pure in heart, he stacked the membership of the House's 60-odd committees, awarded key chairmanships to his cohorts to make sure that nobody did tamper...