Word: hatchet
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...looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, 'I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet...
...Chips Are Down. Such Frenchmen feared that, in the end, it came down to trusting in the still remote and uncertain U.S. power, and events like Congressman John Taber's hatchet work on ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) did nothing to increase that trust. Premier Schuman's government might be gambling its existence (see FOREIGN NEWS) when the French Assembly debates the six-power recommendations soon...
...enjoyed your blast against proctoring more than we who operate that benevolent system, for you emphasize what we've been trying to din into our erudite hatchet-men since the year John Harvard got his famous flunk in History...
Canadian officials felt their teeth on edge every time they heard Wherry honing his hatchet and demanding their economic scalps. They knew there was good U.S. political ammunition in the Wherry cry to cut off shipments of coal and oil to Canada while New England homes went unheated, and to cut off steel exports while U.S. construction was slowed by material shortages...
...conferences, he always sat behind President Roosevelt's big desk, a small, stooped man with bright, hooded eyes in a seamed face. Behind the hornrimmed glasses he looked bored and glum. He seldom said a word. He didn't have to. As the Democrats' ghostwriter and hatchet man, Charley Michelson got the party's biggest guns...