Word: armpit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...operating for cancer of the breast, surgeons usually remove lymph nodes in the armpit through which the cancer cells might spread and cause a recurrence. Dr. Jerome A. Urban of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital reports more success (judged by how many patients have remained free of apparent disease for five years) by a more radical operation: hunting down and removing a chain of tiny lymph nodes that lie underneath the breastbone...
...mysterious houses lurk behind high wire fences suggestive of darker and more mysterious doings within. Newsmen recently counted 27 separate agencies of Western intelligence known to be at work in Berlin. Their operatives-some fashionably clothed in the grey flannel of New York's Madison Avenue, some with armpit holsters bulging under blue serge-report to different headquarters, and rarely know what their colleagues...
...critic: "He never let go of that old Balaban & Katz beat.'' Other critics compared the sound of his voice to "worn velveteen," or said it was "like being stroked by a hand covered with cold cream." One listener wondered if Frank tucked his voice under his armpit between numbers, and another said he sounded as if he had musk glands where his tonsils ought...
...yielding look, and he takes her in his arms. "Goran," she murmurs dreamily. "Don't forget me!" Without a word he carries her to the shore, where they lie in a sun-spangled shade. "Kerstin," he asks gravely, apparently unaware that the camera is gawking under his armpit at the girl. "Do you know what this means...
...doors had not yet opened, and I stood there until be came back, expressionless now, with my newspaper folded into a neat packet, which he had tucked under his right armpit. Finally, the door opened. It let him go first and moved down to the other end of the platform waiting until be had disappeared into a crowd of workmen and Peoples' Police...