Word: hatcheteering
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...close play of the first two periods turned into sloppy wide-open hockey in the last 20 minutes. It actually turned into a contest to see who could get the most penalies. St. Lawrence won easily, but Harvard's Dean Alpine, "the hatchet man," helped the Crimson cause...
Right after the indictment in early 1960. he writes, Pittsfield sympathized with the wrongdoers, rationalizing that "if these men had violated a law, there must be something wrong with that law!" The new managers sent by the company to replace the convicted price fixers were suspiciously regarded as "hatchet men" and "company tools." The town looked upon the fallen executives, who made salaries ranging up to $125,000, as heroes who "had done what had to be done in a business world that wasn't moral anyway; and because they had at least created jobs, they were...
RUST and dirt slowly buried the hatchet for the next eight years. Finally, in 1934, Princeton resumed play with Harvard in football and most other sports. But despite the obvious spirit of "let's be friends again," the Princetonian conscience could not easily forget the "Yale-only" implications of the Harvard Athletic Committee's decision and the excessive anti-Princeton ridiculing by the Lampoon. It would take much longer than eight years for those two wounds to heal, for they had injured Princeton where it hurt most--the Big Three relationship, in which it felt neglected...
...will now be fascinating-in a morbid and unrewarding way-to watch the hatchet men of academe attempt to prove that no writer earning a TIME cover story can possibly be of literary consequence...
...knife-fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...