Word: armpits
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...hardly looks like the stuff of legend: plump and puckish, a shy grin on his broad leg-of-mutton face, a shoulder holster sagging from the armpit of his sweat-blotched, green T shirt, a drinker of nothing more stimulating than cream soda. Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia...
Holworthy Hall, the training grounds for Adams' athletes, upheld its traditional title as the Yard's foremost armpit...
Ford chose to have the operation done by famed Cardiovascular Surgeon Denton A. Cooley at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. Last week, with Schulman assisting, Cooley made a 51-in. incision under Ford's left armpit into the chest. The surgeon then separated Ford's ribs, and collapsed a portion of lung to expose a chain of nerves running along the backbone like a string of far-apart beads. About four inches of the nerves were removed, and the incision closed. The entire operation took barely 90 minutes...
...eight patients had to be hospitalized, mainly for convulsions. Children are not the only victims: a Houston man was stung by a woolly worm's long back hairs when he picked up his golf bag; soon his whole left arm was throbbing with pain up to the armpit. Even with Demerol and Benadryl, he was still in pain and had a headache the next...
...sterilized, thus greatly reducing the risk of infection for the next occupants. (With a single, large preemie ward, which can never be emptied, this practice is impossible.) And preemies enjoy an electronic monitoring system which, the Hopkins believes, is the first of its kind in the world. Under each armpit of the preemie an electrode is taped. One records the baby's temperature, the other its heartbeat. Both signals are transmitted to a central nursing station and can be wired to sound an alarm if either measurement gets out of line...