Word: flaxen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union." He called the demonstrators "a black hand against the party and myself," and told Li and Yang that "we must take strict measures to deal with this movement, or there will be nationwide turmoil." Vowed Deng: "We must use a sharp knife to cut the flaxen threads...
...there was no chance that the West German government, which backed this show, would agree to send souvenirs of a bitter past to England; and even less that its various corporate underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...
DIED. Charlotte Henry, 67, flaxen-haired Hollywood heroine, who starred in such prewar entertainments as Babes in Toyland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and, most notably, the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, in which she played Alice to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper's White Knight and W.C. Fields' Humpty Dumpty; of a brain tumor; in San Diego...