Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she "kept a garment with Clinton's dried semen on it--a garment she allegedly said she would never wash." Drudge declines to characterize his sources. But he says his initial report was "very valid," and he stands by his account that the dress exists. "I know it to be a black cocktail dress," Drudge says...
...following day, Jan. 23, ABC became the first major news outlet to break the dress story based on its own sources. Jackie Judd reported that "Lewinsky says she saved, apparently as a kind of souvenir, a navy blue dress with the President's semen stain on it." In a tantalizing choice of words, Judd attributed the story to "someone with specific knowledge" of the events. Last week ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the network is "satisfied with the sources," but declined to characterize them further...
...report reverberated through secondary media sources, some of the subtlety got lost. United Press International ran a story later on the evening of Jan. 23 saying, "[A] report on ABC's World News Tonight quotes an unnamed source saying Monica Lewinsky saved a navy blue dress stained with President Clinton's semen." Check the wording. Now, instead of Lewinsky talking about a dress, we have a secondhand source asserting the existence of the dress. That was an error, according to U.P.I. managing editor Tobin Beck. The story has been corrected in the wire service's archive, he says...
...York Times reported that on one of the tapes Lewinsky is heard telling Tripp about a dress with a stain from Clinton. The Times attributed its account to "investigators who have heard the tapes." The next day, the Washington Post reported that Lewinsky told Tripp "she has an article of clothing with Clinton's semen on it" and attributed this to discussions contained in more than 20 hours of taped conversations between Tripp and Lewinsky, citing "sources who have listened to" portions of them...
...stained-dress story was bouncing and morphing about, there were also reports of another Lewinsky dress. Newsweek, in a Jan. 21 online report, said Lewinsky had been taped saying Clinton had given her a dress. On Jan. 24 the New York Post described the gift dress as a "multicolored peasant dress" and distinguished it from the "black cocktail dress" that reportedly had the President's semen on it. (A source close to Tripp has told TIME there are two dresses. The gift dress, the source says, is a "cheap" one purchased on Martha's Vineyard; the stained dress...