Word: hatcheted
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...fact, one can almost smell Squire Western as Hugh Griffith plays him in the brimming and boisterous movie version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. With his huge unsynchronized eyes and a face like a Sheffield hatchet, Griffith embodies magnificently one of Fielding's greatest complements to that category of human character that defies heaven and hell, having a kind of rampantly benevolent diabolism unique to the earth...
...President made it clear he was fond of the palace and had little intention of leaving. Early in 1963 he cancelled the scheduled May election and set about fortifying his position. To make up for the half-hearted and unreliable army, the country doctor had developed a private hatchet force called the tonton macoute. Part vigilante, part mafia, the tonton macoute exercised--and continues to exercise--an unpredictable but bloody power. To replace popularity--by this time Duvalier enjoyed little--he unleashed a propaganda campaign that featured large neon inscriptions (the only neon in Port-au-Prince...
...Hatchet in Hand. The hero is a small-town reporter covering the crime. Even as he churns out the stories that forensically call on authorities to catch "the maniac responsible," the young reporter gradually comes to a guilty recognition of his own inner feelings. His shock at seeing the body was indefinably tinctured with lust. "I saw her lying there on the cold basement floor, nude, on the cold basement floor, lovely, and over the horror of the fact washed the desire for the act, uncontrolled, it swept me under despite me, put the hatchet in my hand...
...Victor Lasky (see Opinion). Some reviewers had called the Sidey book too uncritical of Kennedy, the Lasky book too critical. What did the President think? Again, he refused to rise to the bait. He had, he said, thought Sidey's book "critical." As for Lasky's hatchet job, he had only read the first part, but he had seen it praised by the New York Herald Tribune's columnist, Roscoe Drummond, and by New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. And so, said the President, he was "looking forward to reading it, because the part I read...
Power served under growly, grumpy Curt LeMay in the Pacific and impressed his boss-probably, say some cynics, because Power was so much like LeMay. The day LeMay took over SAC in 1948, Tom Power became his deputy, soon earned a reputation as a hatchet man who executed orders with iron-pants precision. After six years, he moved to Baltimore to head the 40,000-man Air Research and Development Command, returning to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base to take over...