Word: tamperings
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...growth of the normal leg with staples (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949) until the shortened one has a chance to catch up. This method has been highly successful, but many parents will not permit it ("My child already has one bad leg; for heaven's sake, don't tamper with his good...
Serving without pay, Mr. Mac proved to be just what the college had hoped for. He liked Reed's twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), refused to tamper with the faculty ("The function of a college is to search for truth...
...weather wins. The Department's Rural Electrification Administration has brought electricity to more than 3,000,000 rural consumers; the Farmers Home Administration's 8,000,000 loans have helped 2,000,000 farm families. On a 12,000-acre research center at Beltsville, Md., department scientists tamper with Nature herself. They produce apples that won't crack, bananas that won't spot; they talk of corn that will yield 200 bushels to the acre (present average: 39), grain seed that can be planted in the spring and left untended until harvest time...
Part of the weight was "low-order" (chemical) explosive to detonate the bomb by driving together its subcritical masses of uranium. Another part was the "tamper"-a casing of metal whose inertia kept the exploding bomb from expanding too rapidly, i.e., before the nuclear explosive had time to react...
...instance, might keep a large mass of uranium from exploding prematurely. When it is suddenly removed, the uranium would start reacting. Such a device would reduce or eliminate entirely the low-order explosive. Also, it may have been possible to speed up the nuclear reaction, thus making the tamper less necessary. Atomic bombs, like other bombs, will always weigh more than their explosive hearts, but presumably they need not weigh nearly 400 times as much...