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