Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crafty insider. Political Analyst Kevin Phillips complains, "The image you get is that he drinks milk shakes one day and bourbon the next." Though his Senate record sustains his claims of being sensitive to the needy, he is still haunted by the image he earned as Gerald Ford's hatchet-wielding running mate in 1976. Even New Hampshire voters, whose closest encounter with Dole is a handshake at a Rotary Club luncheon, refer knowingly to Dole's "dark side...
...last month, Dole was so bland that even George Bush seemed more spirited. Fretful aides blamed themselves -- and one another -- for stressing niceness too hard. But Dole insists the low-key approach was his own. "I wasn't coached at all," he bristles. "My mission was to bury the hatchet...
...David J. says he doesn't want the money. He has promised that in the unlikely event that he wins a seat, he will give his annual $25,000 salary to a fund for the homeless, with David E. as a trustee by way of "burying the hatchet...
...Robert Ludwig Jr., 17, killed his father, a Boston cabdriver, with six hatchet blows to the head. Last March he received a suspended sentence of nine to 15 years after friends and neighbors rallied around the youth and a court psychiatrist testified that Ludwig's was the worst case of abuse he had ever seen. Astonishingly, Ludwig initially denied he had been abused. "Kids are so ashamed," explains Bellevue Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis. "They even try to convince outsiders they deserved the beatings." Says Mones: "These kids are like prisoners of war. They can't think straight anymore...
...hatchet wielder is the World Bank's new president, former Republican Congressman Barber Conable, who took office a year ago. Last week Conable was facing a revolt of staff members, who lodged a formal complaint with the bank's administrative tribunal, a seven-member body of distinguished jurists from around the world. "We have a lot of worried and unhappy people here at the bank," says Christopher Redfern, chairman of the World Bank Staff Association. The 75% of the employees who are from abroad are especially nervous. Reason: some of those laid off by the bank could lose their visas...