Word: armpits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are 13 towns on the Cape. One highway, Route 6, runs the length from Bourne (the shoulder) to Provincetown (the fist); 6A runs parallel from the shoulder to the crook of the elbow. Route 28 runs south from the southwest portal of the Canal to Falmouth (the armpit) and then east to Chatham (the elbow...
...SAUVAGES seems to contain all the necessary ingredients for a screwball romp. One unpredictable beautiful blonde who talks with her mouth full, looks great in men's clothing and covers half of Latin America with a Toulouse-Lautrec stashed under her left armpit. One fiery Italian husband-to-be from whom she is fleeing. One innocent bystander who's unfortunate enough to get caught in a revolving door with the crazed blonde and her duffle bag, and who just happens to have made a fortune in the perfume industry, dropped out of civilization, and live on a tiny deserted island...
Another statuette, "Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Left Armpit," does less to observe the limits of good taste. The woman subject, towel in hand, is twisted around on an armchair, her attention unabashedly focused on the intimate task at hand. The robe slumped formlessly over the back of the chair only adds to the inelegance of the action. And underneath this action lies perhaps the most cruel aspect of the pose: the woman's squat. Her corpulent legs half spread and half closed, and her behind perched unattractively on the very edge of the chair, the pose obviously...
...Emergency Medicine, he describes a typical course of treatment. If the victim is still out in the field several hours away from professional help, says Mills, rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause further harm, as can refreezing. To protect the fragile tissue, it should be wrapped in clean padding; fingers or toes are often splinted to keep them from bruising contact or pressure...
...Radical mastectomy is not as radical as it purports to be," Weber said. While radical surgery, removes the lymph nodes from the armpit, cancer also spreads to the neck and internal mammary lymph nodes under the breastbone, Weber said...