Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...
...accuse The Current of "Harvard indifference;" the magazines is too honest, too obviously concerned, for that. But we can ask that, having gotten self-examination off its editorial chest, the magazine enlarge its interests. There is room in it for fiction, more poetry like William Alfred's political articles, and reviews...
...stands 5 ft. 10½ in., has broad, heavy shoulders and a deep chest that is 45 in. around. This accounts for the tympanic resonance of his voice, which is so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare...
...much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters of the War. Man's shreds of nobility as well as his flesh rot away into humus. A flower casually grows through the clenched hand of a corpse, petals sprout from his chest...
...lungs of most newborn infants begin to work exactly on schedule. But among some babies, particularly the premature, the lungs fail to expand properly. The chest sags, breathing is rapid and the child turns blue. Many deaths during the first week after birth are attributable to this condition, which doctors describe as the "respiratory distress syndrome...