Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mood outside grew slightly surreal; the two candidates' press secretaries, Maxine Isaacs and Kathy Bushkin, appeared on a second floor balcony at one point and tossed flowers to the crowd below. When Mondale and Hart finally emerged, they tried hard to convince their audience that the hatchet burying ritual had indeed been genuine. Said Hart, carefully using Mondale's nickname: "Fritz knows that throughout this contest he and I have been friends, are friends and will continue to be friends." Agreed Mondale: "I think we respect each other. I said during the campaign if we could just...
This is not to say that very many have the temperament of Frank Urban Zoeller, 32, who whistles while he plays. Or that an eight-stroke drubbing was casually accepted by Norman, 29, a hatchet-faced Australian able to hit the ball prodigious distances in unpredictable directions. "I needed something special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt...
...sports rivalry between Harvard and Yale runs deep and strong. But for two weeks this summer, both sides will try to bury the hatchet--or rather, the racket--as women tennis players from both schools team up for a tour of exhibition matches in England...
...already sent a number of small fence-mending signals to the environmental community. Reversing a Watt policy, he offered the National Wildlife Federation hitherto-refused federal data on the amount of poisonous lead shot that duck hunters inadvertently scatter into lakes and ponds. With that gesture, he buried the hatchet with the largest conservation group in the U.S. Clark also promised that he would end the moratorium imposed by Watt on acquiring new land for the national parks and wildlife refuges, a major irritant to outdoor groups, to say nothing of Congress, which had voted $157 million for the purchases...
Unfairness. "Readers are quick to pick up on hatchet jobs. They don't like them. Often those readers get on libel juries...