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Word: nightgown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only worry was "What if Hi says something that spoils my resolve to die?" She went in through the garage and up to the bedroom where he was sleeping. Let's talk, said she. Not now, said he. Then she went into the bathroom, where she found a nightgown and a set of curlers, neither of them hers. "The script was not working as I had intended," she testified. Harris threw them into the bedroom. Suddenly, she said, Tarnower struck her. "Hit me again, and make it hard enough to kill," she screamed. Then, reaching into the purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things She Did for Love | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...entrepreneur named J.W. Small is promoting it as a rape repellent. Rapel, as his $9.95 product is called, is an inch-long plastic cylinder that contains a fragile glass ampoule of the obnoxious fluid. The pencil-thick device can be clipped to the inside of a dress, bra or nightgown; when pressed lightly, the ampoule breaks, releasing the ardor-killing odor. One rape crisis expert frets that Rapel "lulls the user into a false sense of security." Perhaps, but another drawback has already been solved: each package comes with a container of a neutralizing fluid that quickly dissipates the smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odds & Trends: Odds & Trends | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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