Word: tampers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...