Word: hatchet
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...frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs. He liked to invite friends early to a party to help him "scent the flowers." He was happiest "when the lamps of the town are lit," and held forth at Soho cafes, bantering with other wits of the day. "Nero," he said once, "set Christians on fire like large tallow candles"; then he added wickedly that this was "the only light Christians were ever known to give...
...delegate was devised to provide the Vatican with representation in countries, such as the U.S., with which it does not have diplomatic relations. Technically, the apostolic delegate is merely a fraternal envoy to the Catholics of a nation; actually, he is an unofficial diplomat-and, when necessary, a papal hatchet...
Musliner and Iwasawa promptly took up the hatchet in foil and shattered their victims...
...Buried Hatchet. Thus, amid all the proclaimed grandeur of Charles de Gaulle's France, the Fifth Republic last week approached what may be the most important political event in its eight years of existence: this month's parliamentary elections. The first round of balloting is on March 5, with runoff elections a week later. Although De Gaulle's own job is not on the line, the future of Gaullism in France definitely is. This time around, the Gaullists suffer not only from a decline in the popularity of le grand Charles but from the fact that...
Protagonist of all this dubious effort is a middle-aged account executive, Eddie Anderson, who was born Evangelos Topouzoglou. A would-be Tolstoy reduced to pushing Zephyr cigarettes for an advertising agency, Eddie also moonlights as Edward Arness, writer of hatchet jobs for slick magazines. Anderson-Topouzoglou-Arness is trapped in a Los Angeles "Spanish Renaissance ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt...