Word: hatcheting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...
Ever since he lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian...
Traffic Director Robert Rudolph and Councilman Alfred Vellucci smiled broadly at each other, shook hands, and agreed "to bury the hatchet" at an informal meeting yesterday...
Vellucci said he was "very happy" about the new arrangement; for Rudolph the plan was only "experimental." Vellucci was quick to warn Rudolph that if the $3 fine were reinstated for any reason, "the hatchet I buried was not the only...
Sneaking Suspicion. A few weeks ago, Faubus inspired a bill to abolish the A.I.D.C. This was such a transparent hatchet job that even some legislative Democrats rose to defend Rockefeller. Then, one man introduced a bill that would have prohibited any party official-Rockefeller, that is-from sitting on the A.I.D.C. This brought a deluge of angry telegrams and phone calls from all over the state, and Orval Faubus, a pretty shrewd judge of local sentiment, temporarily called off the attack...