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Word: 34b (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a Texas surgeon put Dow Corning silicone implants in Uneeda Laitinen's breasts 25 years ago, he assured her they were not just safe but indestructible. "He said when I was dead in my grave, I'd have beautiful breasts," she recalls. But going from a 34B to a 36C seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLEIGHTS OF SILICONE | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...clubs they were having a series of contests," says one Harvard traveler who wished to remain anonymous. "One [contest] was a request for the biggest bra size. At first I ignored it. When the biggest size they could get was 34B, I said 'That's really pathetic.' I won a bottle of rum for the contest. I met a lot of new friends that...

Author: By Lori I. Diamond, | Title: Despite Frigid Temperatures, Montreal is Hot | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

...crossing the names of captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTIMS OF VIETNAM LIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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