Word: armpit
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...nonprofit basis by Lionel, the glovelike device fits snugly over the thumb and forefinger. Two powerdriven cables move the paralyzed fingers; the cables in turn are controlled by a pushbutton that can be worked by the other hand, by blowing through a tube or by pressure under the armpit. The metal hand has already enabled handicapped individuals to write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave.
...week's end, with the Hedin case to chew on, Stockholm's newspapers had lost some of their interest in American "gorillas" and the Armpit Artillery Case...
...would growl: "Who's talking?" A character had to have his mouth wide open so the reader would know instantly who was talking. Though his profanity was as natural and unconscious as his breathing, he was puritanical about the printed word. He even barred such words as "armpit" and "pratfall...
...Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps before a party, while her famous husband stands by in gold braid, cooling his heels. "Humor," says Steichen, "is one of the rarest elements to be found in photography," but he finds some here-in a misanthropic rhesus monkey, squatting armpit-deep in water; in the earnestness of a Sigma Chi inaugural dinner; in a blasé dog star of television...
...home front, he pushed a pet project for renaming the stars. Tired of such foreign nonsense as Betelgeuse (Armpit of the Central One), Herbert proposed that the heavens be dotted with Nelson, Drake, Cook...