Word: tonsil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn anesthetized Newman's throat by inserting needles in his hands and feet. With assistants, Fox then rotated the needles for 20 minutes while the patient gradually lost feeling. A small benign growth was then painlessly removed from the left tonsil. According to Newman, similar surgery performed several months earlier under a conventional topical anesthetic had caused him "excruciatingly sharp pain...
...Girls, a glossy employment agency aimed at young job seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices grossed $2,000,000 in their first year of operation and Lois has signed up franchisers in twelve major cities. More recently, Lois Holland Callaway founded a recording company, whimsically named Tonsil Records; its first offering features a rock jazz group called The Gas Mask...