tonsillectomy

• Labour still won't change its mind now about the death penalty, and their cry for life without parole sounds pretty weak to a nation that has to wonder if the next time its children go on a school outing to a monument, or to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, they may be blown up The five minutes Stephen had said he could stay became thirty. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
• Troy Smith is still recovering from a nasty tonsillectomy, and won't be available for at best next week. —  MVN
• Just had a tonsillectomy, and the back of my throat feels like an SOS pad - could it be the scabs? en Español —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• In school, you couldn't get away with that garbage because the taxpayers know that if we don't uphold scholastic standards, we will wind up driving on badly designed bridges and go in for a tonsillectomy and come out missing our left lung, so we flunk the losers lest they gain power and hurt us, but in politics we bring forth phonies and love them to death. —  NYT > Global Home
• Then there was the tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, yellow jaundice and the time he split his jaw open in a Jeep accident as an 18-year-old doing National Service in the Army. —  MI6 :: 007 News

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