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Word: playgirls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Down with Designers? | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...know what to call the lady in question--or else, if they did, they weren't letting it get any further than the inevitable city room locker jokes. In the news columns of the fifties, Liz Renay was variously described as "glamorous," "beauteous," "redhead," or "blonde," as an "acquaintance," "playgirl," "entertainer," or "stripper," as an "acquaintance," "girlfriend," or "date" of gambler Mickey Cohen and gangster Anthony Coppola...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Liz Renay Shows Her Face | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

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