Word: nightgown
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During the blaze, Holyoke—age 74 at the time—stood in his nightgown passing buckets of water in the middle of a snowstorm, but despite his efforts the College library and the only known portraits of John Harvard were destroyed, Shoemaker said...
...Last week, Beijing announced it might raise tariffs on unspecified American products if Washington doesn't back down on the steel-import tariffs imposed in March 2002. And it quickly announced it would consider lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the bra and nightgown controls...
...Heathrow from Chicago, the flight attendants suddenly find about half the seats empty, except for the clothes and wedding rings and dental fillings of the believers who have suddenly been swept up to heaven. Down on the ground, cars are crashing, husbands are waking up to find only a nightgown in bed next to them, and all children under 12 have disappeared as well. The next nine books chronicle the tribulations suffered by those left behind and their struggle to be saved...
...Roll over, Beethoven?and light me a cigarette. Ever since Thai-Chinese violin sensation Vanessa-Mae was featured on a 1995 album cover as if she had just won a wet-nightgown competition, record companies have been prowling for accomplished female musicians capable of playing fiddle at a high, steamy pitch. In bond (the "b" is lowercase in deference to 007 copyright lawyers), U.K.-based Decca Records has found its own variation of Sex in the Symphony. Released in 2000, the group's first album, Born, topped classical music charts around the world, selling more than 1 million copies...
...leaders held by spotlights in the center of mural-size doors. Costumes and make-up accentuate the distinction between a humanized George III and his puppet-like court. While most actors are fittingly powdered, wigged and decked up in period costumes, the king is shown alternatively in a nightgown or a straightjacket, with hair awry. The image of the mad king is an obvious echo of King Lear; the analogy between the two scenarios being played up in this production. In dcor, effects and characterization, Hood manages to convey his vision of Bennett's play as a story as epic...