Word: taffeta
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1950s Fitted waists and full-circle skirts of shimmering silks and rustling taffeta...
...aspirin slipped into it, or there was a tasteless, odorless, 180-proof liquor called Everclear that you could buy in North Dakota -- you slipped that into a girl's glass of punch, they said, and 10 minutes later her defenses were down. She stood there in her white taffeta prom gown and white corsage and said, "Why, thank you so much for the wonderful Pepsi, Jimmy -- it tasted so good. And now if you don't mind, I'd like to remove my underwear and lie down beside those begonias and have you do likewise...
Historian William Seale wondered if this was not the first time that the city had been caught up in the drama of a "scheduled war" since 1898. Back then, debate swirled for weeks as Washington matrons in their taffeta ruffles watched from the congressional galleries, and finally the weary William McKinley gave in to the fevered Congress and the U.S. went to war with Spain...
...such times in the past, the floors of the two houses of Congress have become the people's exchange, and it was that way again last weekend for the war-powers debate. No Washington matrons showed up in taffeta, but the galleries were filled with a cross section of Americans, most young, many in uniform...
...trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded. The only pinups on the walls are chaste photographs torn from Thai mail-order catalogs of ladies in bridal gowns and taffeta tea dresses...