Word: hatchet
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Churchill's Land. It was Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, who created the artificial desert kingdom that Hussein rules. Churchill whacked a hatchet-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire, called it Transjordan, and handed it to Hussein's grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped...
Cambridge School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, angrily urged the city council last night to "bury the hatchet and do something for the city." Shaplin spoke at the Cambridge Civic Association's annual meeting, along with other CCA-sponsored members of the school committee and the city council...
...Cost of Cleaving. In Paris, although Pierre Bellardon forgave his wife Thérèse for pinking him twice with a hatchet, the judge lectured her, concluded: "For the security of husbands, I cannot let you off," fined...
...Suez crisis disappeared from the headlines without having been solved. Its ill effects, however, which would reverberate for months to come, sounded most loudly last week not in Egypt itself but in Jordan, the most vulnerable vacuum in the Middle East. It was election time in the hatchet-shaped Hashemite kingdom of Jordan at a most unpropitious moment...
...Fernandel's honorable lad comes home from Algeria on leave and marries the girl, setting the villagers off on a grand, hatchet-burying celebration. Unfortunately and predictably, the era of goodwill is likely to last only until the next movie in the cycle sends them, with shrill Gallic cries, at each other's throats again...