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Word: armpits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast, its underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue was also sent to pathology. Because it takes three or four days to process the lymphoid tissue for microscopic examination, it will not be known until later this week whether Betty Ford's cancer had already spread to some extent. If it had, her doctors may prescribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Most Feared of Tumors | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...judge in the Court of Appeals. A young man named Isao is brought before him, accused of conspiring in a right-wing plot against the government. Honda resigns his position and successfully pleads the boy's defense, for he has seen a birthmark--three moles under the left armpit--that convinces him that the boy is a reincarnation of the dead Kiyoaki. Released from jail, the boy assassinates an important financial figure, and then commits harikiri alone...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Mishima's Last Testament | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

Philadelphia has taken a lot of knocks in its time. W.C. Fields, Sonny Liston and Derek Sanderson, have all taken verbal jabs at the Quaker City. Philly has come to be known as the urban armpit of the East Coast. With this background, the suggestion of a trip to Philadelphia should logically elicit groans, right? Wrong...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: 'Cliffe Rowers Vie for National Title | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

...last year or so pointed him in the direction of less reliance upon the aid and assistance of the Federal government, but more on his own charisma. The Poor People's March of course is a primary example, and he had been, as James Foreman said it, in the armpit of the Federal government. Jim had been trying to get him out from under that so he could do his own thing without being monitored and advised. I think he, King, was getting into that. Unfortunately, he was monitored in other ways. And King was not the only one. Since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview with John A. Williams | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

...resourcefulness of agencies and their clients. Promotion reached a new level with the development of the increasingly controversial feminine-hygiene deodorants. "Businessmen ran out of parts of the body," Delia Femina explains. "We had headaches for a while, but we took care of them. The armpit had its moment of glory, and the toes, with their athlete's foot. We went through wrinkles, we went through diets. We conquered hemorrhoids. So the businessman sat back and said, 'What's left?' And some smart guy said 'The vagina.' Today the vagina, tomorrow the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: It's a Tough Life | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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