Word: flaxen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's news? Well, yes, in a way, because Lulu really was a lulu: the world's first "test-tube baby," as the tabloids proclaimed her, who in a revolutionary procedure was conceived outside the womb. The flaxen-haired girl not only was pretty but also had begun to talk at ten months. Said Truck Driver Father Jon Brown: "We think she's going to grow up into a very pretty blond and a very intelligent...
...result, the multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.), which South Africa has fostered and supported, ran virtually unopposed. To be sure, there were four right-wing fringe parties in the race, including one white-supremist group that ran under the portrait of a flaxen-haired young maiden holding a puppy with that party's slogan: VOTE FOR HER SAKE. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the U.N.-backed political movement that has been waging guerrilla warfare in the territory since 1966, refused to take part in the elections...