Word: armpits
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...weeks ago. Dr. Grubbe's cancer began to spread faster. In a three-hour operation last week. Surgeon John R. Orndorff removed an egg-sized lump from his right armpit, as well as the index and little fingers of his hand. Dr. Grubbe had prepared himself for their loss by practicing household chores with his thumb and middle fingers. At week's end he had regained enough strength to renew his campaign for safety measures against the hazards of radiation. Said Martyr Grubbe: "Both Russia and America must stop exploding nuclear bombs immediately. I know what radiation...
...Irish plow chaser who carries the biggest weapon seen so far on the small screen: a full-length .44-.40 1892 Winchester carbine, which he twirls like a pistol. Fortunately, the man is so shad-bellied tall that he can spin the barrel under his arm without scraping his armpit. Raised in Brooklyn, Chuck spent six years in minor-league ball, wound up with the Los Angeles Angels in 1952 (batted .321, hit 23 homers). When he walked in to try out for Rifleman, the director suddenly pitched a rifle at him. Chuck fielded it neatly...
From afar, the little guy continued, the Arm of that great essence might be a stupendous cluster of stars viewed against the sleek back of the blank universe, but in the armpit was Elysium...
Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne'er-do-well, and uncouth to the core. His friends call him Slum...
...Still armpit-deep in a sea of matrimonial troubles, paunchy Producer Roberto Rossellini ducked under a wave sloshed from another quarter: bankruptcy proceedings over an allegedly unpaid loan of $34,768. Meanwhile, his radiantly blonde partner on a Stromboli idyl nine seething years ago, twice-married Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 42, confirmed that she would make another try at happiness for two-"as soon as it's legally possible." If an annulment decree from Roberto is granted, she will wed her off-camera companion of more recent days, Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt. Open-armed for his new daughter was Lars...