Word: hatchet
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...replaced a veteran hatchet of war, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, 62, who typified the terrifying old guard among Britain's womanhood just as the red-faced cavalry general did Britain's manhood...
...Dumped into a Seattle depository was an aluminum plaque of Adolf Hitler. A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937." In Kansas City: a miniature hatchet, bearing the profile of George Washington...
Last week when Frank Carson, 60, died, Playwright Charles MacArthur (coauthor with Ben Hecht of The Front Page} declared: "He was the newspaperman's dream of a city editor-a hatchet man with a heart of gold...
...Jersey woods. They broke a window in one, hid until dark, ransacked others that night. Now they were well fixed. They found canned food, soup, beans, four .22-calibre rifles, one .410-gauge single-barreled shotgun, one 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun, one 1885 Army rifle, one hatchet, one bayonet, five daggers, two ammunition belts and some 500 rounds of ammunition for the different guns...
...newspapers commenting editorially on That Man's reelection said that regardless of race, creed, or how much dough we lost on the election, Americans must "close ranks," as they boldly phrased it. This is no time they said, for squabbling. Republicans and Democrats alike, we must bury the hatchet--preferably not in each others' necks...