small of the back
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small of the back
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The relatively narrow, lumbar region of the back.
The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the co-opera
Similar: low back, lower back, lumbar
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